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Kidder, Tracy

Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder - 1st ed - New York : Random House , c2009. - xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9781400066216

LCCN: 2008044865

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Dartmouth Medical School----Biography

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Burundian Americans----Biography
Immigrants----United States
Genocide----History -- 20th century
Refugees----Biography
Immigrants---New York(State)---New York----Biography
Medical students----United States----Biography

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (N.Y.)----Biography
Burundi----Biography

LC Class. No.: E184.B89 / K53 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 92 NIY