


Tamirat has an excellent eye for the minor detail that becomes important in retrospect. (“We knew that Ayale was not an only child because there had once been a sister: The barber at Egleston Square had some friends who sold injera out of the 7-Eleven in Jamaica Plain, who feuded with a man named Jerry, who had done her tax returns.”) Before long, she’s delivering packages for him, and a trap begins to close around her. She and the other acolytes harbor a mild obsession with his origins. She begins dropping by the lot after school. She finds him magnetic, and she’s hardly alone he seems to have attracted a group of parking lot attendant disciples. Ayale is in his 30s or 40s, and seems to be the unofficial mayor of a tightknit Ethiopian-American community in Boston. At 15 she’s deemed old enough to get herself to and from school on her own, and this is when she encounters the parking lot attendant. In short, this is a girl who might find herself somewhat vulnerable to anyone offering some semblance of stability, particularly anyone who might pass as a backup father figure. At all other times, I prepared myself for his inevitable departure, after which there would be no more parents: I would be alone.” After an awkward encounter with an irritating new monk at their church, he starts skipping services in favor of a weekly brunch with his daughter, and their conversations over eggs and pancakes take on a deep importance to her: “Only at brunch could I see him as someone who would stay. Her father is pensive by nature and uncomfortable around other people, and while there’s good will on both sides, his rapport with his daughter is far from effortless. They live in limbo and in a state of ever-increasing tension. (Fortunately, the narrator is fluent although she was born in the United States, her parents emigrated from Ethiopia.) The commune on B- is by no means a permanent settlement the colonists are preparing for a move to a promised land in Africa. The only book allowed is the Bible, in Amharic. The colonists, as they call themselves, live by rigid rules set out by a group of anonymous leaders. The commune’s managerial arrangements can only be described as sinister. She’s miserable and ill at ease, which seems reasonable under the circumstances. They’ve fled some unspecified trouble in Boston, but the trouble seems to have followed them. $26.Īt the start of Nafkote Tamirat’s debut novel, “The Parking Lot Attendant,” the narrator - a 17-year-old girl who is never named - has recently arrived with her father on the remote subtropical island of B-, where they’ve found uneasy refuge in a commune. Please read our Terms of Use for more information.THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT By Nafkote Tamirat 225 pp. If any book on this platform violates any copyrights, please inform us immediately and we shall take appropriate action. A special thanks to volunteers working from Grace Bible Church.
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