jayla45 's review for:

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

4.0

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I finally finished reading "What is the What." The novelized memoir of Sudanese "lost boy" Valentino Achak Deng is a book I kept having to put down and pick up again. It is a vivid and moving retelling of a horrifying story, told in such a present and human way that it is somehow, amazingly, both heartbreaking and warmly funny. And a lesson on Africa. Oh, and America.