Louise -On- "Sweetness"

Just finished reading Sweetness. Thank you Sara for choosing it.
It was the perfect book in which to fluidly be learning invaluable
knowledge about Ethiopia while so drawn into the story you hardly notice!
This book brought up so many of my own misconceived partially
understood notions regarding Islam and Ethiopia. I am an avid reader and
have read many books nonfiction and fiction alike about Africa and Islam
and somehow have not been able to hold all the facts together properly
in my mind.
The world is too big, as we know.
While reading Sweetness during this stage in my own waiting process I was
struck with the hunger to absorb everything I could Ethiopian. I mean to say
that the knowledge and information that I am gathering now in trying to understand
this country that I will visit soon and gain insights into the life my daughter has been
living and where her roots have grown will stay with me. This is not just someplace
else in the big jumbly world. This is a place I will spend a lifetime learning to understand.
Interesting to read with perspectives from the different groups in Ethiopia and how they
regard each other. Curious to hear how those of you that have already been to Ethiopia
felt since Harar seems to be a world into itself in the story and hard to get to from Addis.
"None of us are orphans even if everyone we've ever loved has died." p327