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Author:

Millan, Harriet Levin, author.

Title:

How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch / Harriet Levin Millan.

Publisher:

Harvard Square Editions,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

293 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Sudanese--Fiction.
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction.
Refugees--Sudan--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Sudan--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Summary:

Based on the real-life of Michael Majok Kuch, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, follow the five-year-old boy's flight from war in southern Sudan, and his journey to find his mother. When the US grants approximately 4,000 unaccompanied minors political asylum, Majok becomes Michael, and he is given a new start in the US. Unfortunately his new life is not without trauma. This is the true saga of a survivor who summons the courageous spirit of millions of refugees throughout history, and it lives on today.

ISBN:

1941861415
9781941861417
1941861202
9781941861202

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)