Miscellaneous
In "The Shadow King," Queens College's Maaza Mengiste digs into the history of her native Ethiopia and unearths a true-to-life story of women who fought for the right to defend their country against Mussolini's army in the years before World War II. Mengiste's second novel is a mythic tale inspired by the stories she heard growing up--and the discoveries she made doing meticulous research in Italy and Ethiopia.