The issue of ethics in representation of others is a new direction in studies about representations. Although all claims to the authenticity of representations have lost their validity, especially after the poststructuralist intervention, it is still theoretically deemed possible to think of representations of others which show some measures of ethicality. The present article argues that Camilla Gibb’s novel, Sweetness in the Belly, in which the Canadian non-Muslim Gibb represents the Muslim people of Ethiopia is one such representation. The article, mainly drawing on theories of representation, maintains that the novel’s conditions of production and reception make it an example of a representation of others that strives toward ethicality. It is then suggested that although Gibb’s text does not totally escape the embodiment of some colonial discourses, it can still, to a great extent, be considered an ethical representation of others due to some evidence, including the professed intention of the author, some narrative strategies in the text, the author’s awareness of discourses of power, implied in the novel, and finally the reception of the novel by the readers and critics, which further manifests its success in combating the stereotypical images of its objects of representation, the Muslim people of Harar.