A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is a 2022 short stories collection by Ethiopian-American writer Meron Hadero.
The short stories collection includes "The Street Sweep" which won the 2021 Caine Prize.
Hadero was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia relocated to the United States as a child through Germany.
[1] Terry Hong writing for The Christian Science Monitor praised the narrative of the stories and the writers "prodigious storytelling".
"[2] Eileen Gonzalez of Foreword called it a "heartfelt collection about the highs, lows, and ordinary days of Ethiopian life"[3] while Publishers Weekly called it an "assured debut is well worth a look.