public library recommendation

strength in what remains.
tracy kidder.

true story.
i had to keep telling myself it was not made up.
burundi.... real country.
real genocide.
new york....really homeless.
columbia....really graduated.
builds a clinic back in burundi.


how does this happen?
that is what the author tries to figure out.
remarkable.
breath-taking.
seriously.... i had to keep reminding myself that deo is a real person. this really happened to him. this is really his story.

kidder takes us through deo's journey from farm hills, to medical school, to war, to refugee camps in rwanda, to new york city and back. it is not linear, yet moves in such a way that it is captivating, troubling, horrifying, and beautiful. from the people that deo meets to his survival; from his loss to his journey back from that loss.

wow!
and by the way, i thought kidder was an excellent writer in such a way that deo's story is only enriched because of the narration..... kidder does not tarnish deo's journey with his pen. makes me want to read his other book (mountains beyond mountains) which my husband is appalled that i had not heard about nor read yet. whoops!

Comments

jeanette said…
oh! I might look into this...Burundi is such a little known country..and yet such horrors occurred. The refugees we're involved with (and the ones that stayed with us) are from Burundi. AMAZING people.

thanks for posting this.
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