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Rebecca Fisseha, Writer.

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Category: Ethiopian Identity

Prompt # 62 – alias
May 14, 2018

Prompt # 62 – alias

Prompt # 20 – history
May 3, 2018

Prompt # 20 – history

Notes from the Canadian Honey Jar
April 18, 2018

Notes from the Canadian Honey Jar

A Creature of Speed and Air
October 25, 2017

A Creature of Speed and Air

SD Vol 8: Username Unavailable
December 12, 2015

SD Vol 8: Username Unavailable

Human Hair and Me
January 20, 2015

Human Hair and Me

About Face
December 22, 2014

About Face

November 11, 2014

Talk Amharic to Me

July 18, 2014

After Addis 3

July 16, 2014

After Addis 2

July 13, 2014

After Addis 1

February 24, 2014

Username Unavailable

January 6, 2014

Happy SSDD

December 16, 2013

Permanent Hager Fikir

December 9, 2013

FOB 4 Life

December 2, 2013

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Playing God with people: one of the best things about being a writer! Provided they cooperate, you can have your characters do just about anything. Same goes for real life locations. While writing the pool scenes in #daughtersofsilence, I had fun transporting the pool diving tower from the #addisababa #ghionhotel to the one at the #hiltonaddisababa at zero cost, zero manpower, no permits needed other than the one that a woman with a pen gives herself šŸ˜ But out of compassion for the purists, I depict the #sodereresort pool as is. What was your favourite soaking pond as a kid? . . . Photos via: @ichiro.takahashi (Hilton) @adventuresinaddis (Ghion) @natnaelasmare (Sodere) . . . #storytelling #habesha #ethiopia #immigrantstories #ethiopiandiaspora #diasporaliterature #africandiaspora #africanliterature #bookstagram #canlit #blackcanlit #habeshaculture #diversecanlit #habeshaexperience #goodreads #womensfiction #books #fiction #readthenorth #goodreads #festofauthors40 #torontolitup #torontowots
Countdown is on! One month until Daughters of Silence sashays-chantays into the market! Preorders are on the way! In the meantime, a teaser trailer... . #storytelling #habesha #ethiopia #immigrantstories #ethiopiandiaspora #diasporaliterature #africandiaspora #africanliterature #bookstagram #canlit #blackcanlit #habeshaculture #diversecanlit #habeshaexperience #goodreads #womensfiction #books #fiction #readthenorth #goodreads #festofauthors19 #torontolitup #torontowots #artopiadc
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@cbcbooks Our Canadian fiction fall preview list is here! Check out the novels coming out this fall that we canā€™t wait to read. Posted @withrepost šŸ“š Albatross by Terry Fallis This Little Light by Lori Lansens Watermark by Christy Ann Conlin Translated from the Gibberish by Anosh Irani Night of Power by Anar Ali A Better Man by Louise Penny Lampedusa by Steven Price The Innocents by Michael Crummey Akin by Emma Donoghue The Difference by Marina Endicott Worry by Jessica Westhead Five Wives by Joan Thomas The Testaments by Margaret Atwood A Delhi Obsession by M.G. Vassanji Daughters of Silence by Rebecca Fisseha The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor Arctic Smoke by Randy Nikkel Schroeder The Somali Camel Boy by Nur Abdi Even That Wildest Hope by Seyward Goodhand Crow Winter by Karen McBride Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Different Beasts by J.R. McConvey Island by Johanna Skibsrud Watching You Without Me by Lynn Coady Here I Am! by Pauline Holdstock The Wagers by Sean Michaels The Lost Sister by Andrea Gunraj Bone Black by Carol Rose GoldenEagle The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams by Ceilidh Michelle The Shape of Family by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Blue Bear Woman by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau, translated by Susan Ouriou & Christelle Morelli There Has to Be a Knife by Adnan Khan šŸ“š Check the link in our story for release dates, and for more information on these books and their authors head to cbcbooks.ca!
Pick a spot, any spot...to be laid to rest in. Pretend that money isnā€™t an issue, and neither is logistics. Or perhaps you couldnā€™t care less where you are buried, unlike a certain generation of #immigrants, who care a ton! . ā€œTake me home when I dieā€ is a hard-to-misinterpret instruction given to many a #firstgeneration #thirdculturekid by their immigrant parents. Never mind that mom and/or dad havenā€™t been ā€œback homeā€ in decades and/or have complained bitterly about everything when they did visit! . A transatlantic battle of wills over the appropriate burial ground, vaguely inspired by personal experience, was the genesis of #daughtersofsilence. So, naturally, I wrote key scenes in the #novel (see last pic for excerpts) in cemeteries real and made-up. Real: Kidus Yosef Cemetery, and Selassie Cathedral Cemetery both in #AddisAbaba. Top row of pix. Made up/bottom pic: at one of the most striking locations in Toronto, the Scarborough Bluffs. . Top: detail of tombstone at Kidus Yosef from @michaeltsegayeā€™s haunting ā€˜Chasms of the Soulā€™ series (also via @african_art_stories); the Patriots section of Trinity Cathedralā€™s cemetery. Bottom: Torontoā€™s Scarborough Bluffs, the setting for the fictional cemetery in #daughtersofsilence. . Iā€™ll muse more about this and other diaspora death drama in an upcoming blog post. (Repatriations, anyone?! šŸ˜³) In the meantime, for real life stories, browse through the ā€˜Funeral costā€™ highlights on @shadesofinjera Maybe youā€™ll add your story? . . . #storytelling #habesha #ethiopian #immigrantstories #ethiopiandiaspora #diasporaliterature #africandiaspora #africanliterature #bookstagram #canlit #blackcanlit #habeshaculture #habeshaexperience #habeshaparents #goodreads #womensfiction #books #fiction #repatriations #scarboroughbluffs #torontolitup #festofauthors19 #festat40 #torontowots
One of the trickier #ethiopian folk sayings to translate, so I took huge liberties! Literally it should be, ā€œhe who stabbed may forget, but he who was stabbed will not forgetā€. But within the context of Dessie and her military grandfather the Shaleqa in #daughtersofsilence, I wanted to give the translation even more of a militaristic flavour, especially since she is the one who says it in reference to his mindset. How would you translate it? Know of similar sayings? . . . Ethio emojis courtesy of the fabulous @desetadesign Next time you want a coffee #buna , run donā€™t walk to the App Store & drop your $2.49 (Or whatever it is in US dollars šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™€ļø) on them instead! . . . #readthenorth #storytelling #habesha #ethiopian #ethiopianculture #immigrantstories #ethiopiandiaspora #amharicproverbs #africanproverbs #diasporaliterature #africandiaspora #africanliterature #bookstagram #bookstagramafrica #canlit #habeshaculture #habeshaproblems #modernhabesha #habeshaexperience #goodreads #womensfiction #books #fiction #ifoa #torontowots #torontolitup

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