Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities. In conversations with more than forty East African immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, the author captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents how some individuals have been able to transcend the ghosts from the past and extend a tentative hand to their former enemies.
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