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How fast can you run : a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch / Harriet Levin Millan.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E88959 H69 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millan, Harriet Levin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sudanese--United States--Fiction.
- Sudanese.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Refugees.
- History.
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction.
- Sudan.
- Refugees--Sudan--Fiction.
- Refugees--United States--Fiction.
- Sudan--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harvard Square Editions, 2016.
- 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:
- 9781941861202
- 1941861202
- OCLC:
- 960288057
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