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Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder.

Van Pelt Library E184.B89 K53 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kidder, Tracy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Niyizonkiza, Deo.
Dartmouth Medical School.
Burundian Americans--Biography.
Burundian Americans.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Immigrants.
Medical students.
Refugees.
Genocide.
History.
United States.
Burundi.
Genocide--Burundi--History--20th century.
Refugees--Burundi--Biography.
Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
New York (N.Y.).
National Book Committee.
Medical students--United States--Biography.
Dartmouth Medical School--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xvii, 277 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Random House, [2009]
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.
Contents:
Flights
Gusimbura.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-277).
ISBN:
9781400066216
1400066212
OCLC:
263605390

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