{"id":44069,"date":"2018-08-01T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44069"},"modified":"2018-07-31T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:31:26","slug":"wifes-tale-personal-history-aida-edemariam-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wifes-tale-personal-history-aida-edemariam-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wife&#8217;s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-800x800.jpg\" class=\"size-medium alignleft wp-image-43979\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Wifes-Tale-Aida-Edemariam-BookDragon.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Within the first few minutes, the chameleonic Adjoa Andoh quickly grabs listeners&#8217; attention with the high-pitched ululating trilling that will repeat throughout the almost 10 hours of narration here. Ethiopian Canadian journalist Edemariam couldn&#8217;t have found a better narrator to embody her late nonagenarian grandmother, through whose long life Edemariam also presents the multilayered history of 20th-century Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Married at age 8 to a 30-year-old priest with poetic tendencies, Y\u00e8t\u00e8megn bears witness to almost a century of jarring events, the private and public inextricably linked. The children she bears and those she loses, her husband&#8217;s rise to power and his imprisonment, her struggle to keep her family&#8217;s lands, her determination to raise and educate her surviving children dovetail with the tumultuous, often violent decades of Ethiopia&#8217;s imperial rule, Italy&#8217;s invasion, famine, <em>coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat<\/em>, dictatorship, and revolution. Where the text occasionally lags with unnecessary detail and disjointed digression, Andoh deftly commands the narration with an authority clearly reflective of Y\u00e8t\u00e8megn&#8217;s own storytelling prowess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: For cosmopolitan audiences in search of intriguing, historically linked true stories, look to this <em>Wife&#8217;s Tale<\/em> both to entertain and enlighten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-07-01-3322250.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-07-01-3322250.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Library Journal<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-07-01-3322250.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">, July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the first few minutes, the chameleonic Adjoa Andoh quickly grabs listeners&#8217; attention with the high-pitched ululating trilling that will repeat throughout the almost 10 hours of narration here. 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