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Kidder, Tracy.
Strength in what remains /
Tracy Kidder.
1st edition.
New York :
Random House,
2009.
xvii, 277 pages ;
25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277.)
Flights -- Gusimbura.
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.
Niyizonkiza, Deo.
Dartmouth Medical School
Biography.
Authors, American
Maine.
Burundian Americans
Biography.
Immigrants
United States
Biography.
Immigrants
New York (State)
New York
Biography.
Genocide
Burundi
History
20th century.
Refugees
Burundi
Biography.
Medical students
United States
Biography.
New York (N.Y)
Biography.
Biographies.