The Parking Lot Attendant

Posted on 08 March 2018 by Nafkote Tamirat

A mesmerizing, indelible coming of age story about a girl in Boston s tightly knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the worldA haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today, Nafkote Tamirat s The Parking Lot Attendant explores how who we love, the choices we make, and the places we re from combine to make us who we are.The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two newest and least liked members of a commune that has taken up residence there Though the commune was built on utopian principles, it quickly becomes clear that life here is not as harmonious as the founders intended After immersing us in life on the island, our young heroine takes us back to Boston to recount the events that brought her here Though she and her father belong to a wide Ethiopian network in the city, they mostly keep to themselves, which is how her father prefers it.This detached existence only makes Ayale s arrival on the scene intoxicating The unofficial king of Boston s Ethiopian community, Ayale is a born hustler when he turns his attention to the narrator, she feels seen for the first time Ostensibly a parking lot attendant, Ayale soon proves to have other projects in the works, which the narrator becomes and entangled in to her father s growing dismay By the time the scope of Ayale s schemes and their repercussions become apparent, our narrator has unwittingly become complicit in something much bigger and darker than she ever imagined. Free Read The Parking Lot Attendant [ author ] Nafkote Tamirat [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The book opens with the musings of a girl with no name who is living with her father in a commune on an island, also with no name Girl and father seem unwelcome on the island The story then flashes back to explain how the pair wound up on the island, although for me nothing was really explained adequately I found the book, and it s point, incomprehensible Father and missing mother were Ethiopian immigrants Their daughter was born in the United States The 15 year old girl falls under the The book opens with the musings of a girl with no name who is living with her father in a commune on an island, also with no name Girl and father seem unwelcome on the island The story then flashes back t...Okay, I can t do it This was torturous I understand having to work hard for clever and complex works of literature, but I fear I might hurt myself if I try any harder to understand what the hell is going on in this book.I actually just can t make any sense of the plot There s an unnamed narrator and her father moving from Boston to an also unnamed island commune Then the book shifts and takes us back to Boston and their life leading up to the move We see how the teenage narrator is draw Okay, I can t do it This was torturous I understand having to work hard for clever and complex works of literature, but I fear I might hurt myself if I try any harder to understand what the hell is going on in this book.I actually just can t make any sense of the plot There s an unnamed narrator and her father moving from Boston to an also unnamed island ...Thank you so much to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT by Nafkote Tamirat all opinions are my own.The book opens with an unnamed narrator, a teenage girl from Boston, and her Ethiopian immigrant father, living on an undisclosed island The story then switches back to life if Boston, prior to the island, where her parents are still together Here, she starts hanging around a man named Ayale, a parking lot attendant In the subsequent chapters, the narrator recoun Thank you so much to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT by Nafkote Tamirat all opinions are my own.The book opens with an unnamed narrator, a teenage girl from Boston, and her Ethiopian immigrant father, living on an undisclosed island The story then switches back to life if Boston, prior to the island, where her parents are still together Here, she starts hanging around a man...The Parking Lot Attendant gets off to a very engaging start As described in the blurb, the story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father have taken up residence I found myself wanting to knowabout this island but also didn t mind the setting shifting to Boston in order to find out how they ended up on the island and how it came to be The second chapter clues us in on how the narrator comes to live with her father, and the third chapter is where she fina The Parking Lot Attendant gets off to a very engaging start As described in the blurb, the story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father have taken up residence I found myself wanting to knowabout this island but also didn t mind the setting shifting to Boston in order to find out how they ended up on the island and how it came to be The second chapter clues us in on how the narrator comes to live with her father, and the third chapter is where she finally meets the parking lot attendant This is where I expected the story to really take off Unfortunately, things remain pretty flat and stay that way for most of the book while the narrator develops a friendship with the parking lot attendant, a man older than her father As the narrator develops feelings for...What an enthralling novel The setting is the best part Relationships are formed, crimes are committed, and Ethiopian politics are discussed in a Boston parking lot.When she is 15 years old and wandering around after school, the protagonist, never named, whom I ll refer to as P, hears a group of men talking and she is introduced to Ayale, a parking lot attendant She says, This was my first encounter with the unofficial intelligence network that includes all Ethiopians in any given locale Ay What an enthralling novel The setting is the best part Relationships are formed, crimes are committed, and Ethiopian politics are discussed in a Boston parkin... The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat was captivating from page one We re introduced to our narrator whose story begins on an undisclosed island where it s clear she and her father might be outcasts of sorts This unnamed island has become home to the narrator and her father along with other Ethiopians that believed in Ayale.Our narrator recounts the events that led to her being on this island that was to serve as a sort of Utopia for herself and the current residents but they all soon f The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat was captivating from page one We re introduced to our narrator whose story begins on an undisclosed island where it s clear s... The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat was captivating from page one We re introduced to our narrator whose story begins on an undisclosed island where it s clear she and her father might be outcasts of sorts This unnamed island has become home to the narrator and her father along with other Ethiopians that believed in Ayale.Our narrator recounts the events that led to her being on this island that was to serve as a sort of Utopia for herself and the current residents but they all soon f The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat was captivating from page one We re introduced to our narrator whose story begins on an undisclosed island where it s clear she and her father might be outcasts of sorts This unnamed island has become home to the narrator and her father along with other Ethiopians that ...To be honest, I m not exactly sure what happened in this book Things go from vaguely suspicious to dead serious without much clarity I was ok with the writing and the story between the father and daughter...I ve been a voracious reader as far back as I can remember In second grade, I read the entire Black Stallion series by Walter Farley twice through and regretted the ending of every installment all eighteen of them two times over, wishing I could remain in the exciting world of fiction indefinitely This feeling has repeated itself so many times since I could not count the number My voracity, though, had a price I always chose story over literary magnitude I was a not a reading snob I read T I ve been a voracious reader as far back as I can remember In second grade, I read the entire Black Stallion series by Walter Farley twice through and regretted the ending of every installment all eighteen of them two times over, wishing I could remain in the exciting world of fiction indefinitely This feeling has repeated itself so many times since I could not count the number My voracity, though, had a price I always chose story over literary magnitude I was a not a reading snob I read The Goonies in seventh grade War and Peace it was not, though I read that when I was nineteen and could not tell you a damn thing about it I had no interest in careful, critical assessment If I didn t understand a word, I blazed past it If prose got boring, I went on autopilot until the story resumed my desired level of interest As I ve aged, my need and desire for heightened literary merit has increased, as has my ability to critically assess better wha... It has not escaped us that older generations must do all they can to improve the lives of future ones, but we had believed ourselves to be the future We were under the impression that we were the owed ones We had not counted on this debt of service.This book begins on an unnamed sub tropical island, where the narrator and her father are living with a cult like group for reasons that are unclear The novel then jumps to the central story, a less fantastic one about a teenage girl, the child of It has not escaped us that older generations must do all they can to improve the lives of future ones, but we had believed ourselves to be the future We were under the impression that we were the owed ones We had not counted on this debt of service.This book begins on an unnamed sub tropical island, where the narrator and her father are living with a cult like group for reasons that are unclear The novel then jumps to the central story, a less fantastic one about a teenage girl, the child of Ethiopian immigrants, who becomes drawn to an older charismatic man who manages a Boston parking lot, but who is also involved in some other stuff, stuff the girl knows nothing about At heart, this is a small story, of a girl figuring out her world and how she fits into it, as a second generation immigrant, as a daughter being raised by a single father, as a black girl in a school with nobody like...

08 March 2018

Nafkote Tamirat