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Of beetles and angels : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard / Mawi Asgedom ; edited by Dave Berger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mawi Asgedom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mawi Asgedom--Childhood and youth.
- Mawi Asgedom.
- Ethiopian Americans--Biography.
- Ethiopian Americans.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Refugees.
- Refugee children.
- United States.
- Sudan.
- Refugee children--Sudan--Biography.
- Refugees--Sudan--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First fifteenth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2016.
- Summary:
- An autobiography of a boy who, at the age of three, fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago and earned a scholarship to Harvard University. Includes recipes and discussion questions.
- Contents:
- Memories
- The Camp
- Coming to America
- A New Life
- God's Angels
- Playground Warfare
- Days of Mischief
- Libee Migbar
- Coffee Tales
- The Making of a Man
- The Unmaking of a Man
- Eyeing the Mountaintop
- Father Haileab
- Izgihare Yihabkoom
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- "Brother"
- Acknowledgments
- Giving back
- Mama Tsege's Legendary Habesha Recipes
- Questions and answers with Mawi
- Reading group guide.
- Notes:
- "Megan Tingley books."
- "Special expanded 15th anniversary edition"--Page 4 of cover.
- ISBN:
- 9780316826204
- 0316826200
- 9781442004733
- 1442004738
- OCLC:
- 954149928
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