Strength in What Remains
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With an anthropologists eye and a novelists pen, Pulitzer Prizewinning Kidder (Mountains Beyond Mountains) recounts the story of Deo, the Burundian former medical student turned American migr at the center of this strikingly vivid story. Told in flashbacks from Deos 2006 return visit to Burundi to mid-1990s New York and the Burundi of childhood memory and young adulthoodas the Rwandan genocide spilled across the border following the same inflamed ethnic divisionsthen picking up in 2003, when author and subject first meet, Deos experience is conveyed with a remarkable depth of vision and feeling. Kidder renders his subject with deep yet unfussy fidelity and the conflict with detail and nuance. While the book might recall Dave Eggerss novelized version of a real-life Sudanese refugees experience in What Is the What, reading this book hardly covers old ground, but enables one to walk in the footsteps of its singular subject and see worlds new and old afresh. This profoundly gripping, hope
