Maaza Mengiste, Hannah Georgis
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 6 pm
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Powell's City of Books
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Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers who were left out of the WWII chapters of your history books. The author will be joined in coversation by Hannah Giorgis, culture writer at The Atlantic.