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WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers
When Valentino Achak Deng was a young boy, soldiers burned his village. He became one of Sudan's Lost Boys — parentless, he walked hundreds of miles in search of safety, then spent years in one refugee camp after another. When he finally came to America as a young man, his problems started all over again. Don't read this novel — which is closely based on one Lost Boy's life — out of any sense of pity or obligation. Read it because it's a great document of hope, and despair, and the will to keep walking one step further.





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