It's a fantasy about a word-of-mouth, nation-wide network of taxi cabs that would come to the aid of immigrants, migrants, refugees, anyone who was in the wrong place and needed to be somewhere else but didn't know how to get there.
Mengestu's own ingenuity and eloquence as a writer show at least one way to break out of the same old mold of telling immigrant stories in Someone Like Us.
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