All Our Names

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu.

Dinaw Mengestu connects two young men's friendship during an African revolution with an exile's relationship in the American Midwest. A new life remains shadowed by the commitments and losses of the old one.

Read it for what migration changes and what it cannot put to rest. The novel asks how love can take shape when the people involved do not share full access to each other's past.