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Incredible story of Deo, a Tutsi from Burundi who survived the conflict/mass slaughter in the '90s. It is amazing what people can live through and still find the strength to go on. After the horrors he's gone through in Burundi and then Rwanda, he decides to come to America, with $200 in his pocket, knowing no one and nothing about this country. He starts out working as a delivery person at Gristede's and basically living in Central Park. This job puts him in contact with people who see his potential and get him the help he needs to continue his medical education that he had begun back home before the uprising.
The book gives a little of the history of the Tutsis and the Hutus, and trying to make some sense of how and when the clashes between these two people began. It is a sad reminder of the atrocities humans are capable of inflicting on one another, for seemingly no logical reason.
The book gives a little of the history of the Tutsis and the Hutus, and trying to make some sense of how and when the clashes between these two people began. It is a sad reminder of the atrocities humans are capable of inflicting on one another, for seemingly no logical reason.
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