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Strength in What Remains : : a Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting

Kidder, Tracy. Book - 2010 Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Niyizonkiza, Deo, 305.896 Ki 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Niyizonkiza, Deo, 305.896 Ki
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Includes reader's guide.
Flights -- Gusimbura.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Emotionally-affecting and Educational submitted by Sara W on June 27, 2011, 8:46pm This book is equal parts emotionally-affecting and educational. I learned more than I ever knew about the Hutu-Tutsi conflict and Burundi's involvement in the genocide that I always associated exclusively with Rwanda.

The story is compelling and Deo is an incredible character to follow through difficult, terrifying and uncertain situations. He is intelligent, enterprising and frighteningly naive. Deo doesn't give up - not when the bricks of his dream-clinic melt in the rainy season, not when taunting Hutu militias throw rocks at the bush in which he is hiding, not when no one responds to his attempts at friendly greetings as a delivery man in New York.

I found Deo's story incredibly touching and expertly re-told in the capable hands of Tracy Kidder. This is a fascinating and satisfying story.