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Woooooooo! De Toqueville!

Also, class wars.

Though it's buying into the hippy utopian social engineering project, I'm kinda excited to read this.

Though I haven't read the book I saw Mengestu speak last year at Elliott Bay and was impressed. The passage he read was great and he gracefully fielded a number of ill-informed audience questions (why would one ask an Ethiopian writer living in the US about the Congo?!?!). Class and race will certainly come up since gentrification is a central theme in the book. That's a good pick by SPL.