Events

[LIT] In anticipation of award-winning author Dinaw Mengestu coming to Buffalo next month, Just Buffalo Literary Center is launching The Big Read to get Buffalo reading Mengestu’s 2007 novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, which is set in an Ethiopian-American grocery in Washington, DC. The New York Times described it as “a great African novel, a great Washington novel and a great American novel.” To kick off a month of planned events before Mengestu’s Buffalo appearance on November 18, Just Buffalo has teamed with PUSH Buffalo and Abyssinia Ethiopian Cuisine (West Side Bazaar) for a celebration of food and African dance and drumming this Friday, October 2 at the Grant Street Neighborhood Center.