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Strength in what remains : a journey of remembrance and forgetting Cover Image Book Book

Strength in what remains : a journey of remembrance and forgetting / Tracy Kidder.

Kidder, Tracy. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400066216
  • ISBN: 1400066212
  • Physical Description: xvii, 277 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2009]

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General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
Formatted Contents Note:
Flights -- Gusimbura.

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Subject: Dartmouth Medical School > Biography.
Burundian Americans > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Genocide > Burundi > History > 20th century.
Refugees > Burundi > Biography.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Medical students > United States > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.

Available copies

  • 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 305.896 NYIZONKIZA 2009 (Text) 0001001552460 Nonfiction Available -

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