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Author:

Kidder, Tracy.

Title:

Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Niyizonkiza, Deo.
Burundian Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Genocide--Burundi--History--20th century.
Refugees--Burundi--Biography.
Immigrants--New York--New York--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Medical students--United States--Biography.
Dartmouth Medical School--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Emigrants and Immigrants--New York City--Biography
Emigrants and Immigrants--United States--Biography.
History, 20th Century.
Homicide--history--Burundi.
Refugees--Burundi--Biography.
Students, Medical--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277).

Contents:

Flights -- Gusimbura.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1400066212 (acid-free paper)
9781400066216 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)263605390

LCCN:

2008044865

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