What Is the What
Dave Eggers • 2006
Devastation Rating
refugee Sudan Lost Boys displacement
Our Take
Eggers tells the story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of Sudan's Lost Boys, through a novelised memoir that walks from village to refugee camp to Atlanta. The walking is the point — thousands of miles of it, through desert and war, children dying along the way.
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