Strength in what remains
Subtitle: a journey of remembrance and forgetting
By: Tracy Kidder.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781400066216
Subjects: Niyizonkiza, Deo; Dartmouth Medical School -- Biography; Burundian Americans -- Biography; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography; Genocide -- Burundi -- History -- 20th century; Refugees -- Burundi -- Biography; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Medical students -- United States -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
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