Status
Checked out
Due 2022-06-19
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Random House, 2009.
DDC/MDS
305.896 K46s |
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.
Language
Original publication date
2009
Physical description
xvii, 284 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
9780812977615
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