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Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781400066216 (acidfree paper)
  • 1400066212 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E184.B89 K53 2009
Contents:
Flights -- Gusimbura.
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.
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Book Book Speedway Adult Area Non-fiction 305.8967 KID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 35550431048167
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277).

Flights -- Gusimbura.

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.

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