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What Is the What
by Dave Eggers
What is the What by Dave Eggers was one of my library sale books. When I get free or crazy cheap books I like to branch outside oy comfort zones of knowledge (Revolutionary War history and anything Medieval or fantasy) so I grabbed What is the What because my knowledge on the Sudanese civil war and the Lost Boys is a shorter range than this sentence is long.
Let me start with the "What" in question comes from a story our narrator's father used to tell where God offers the Sudanese cattle to start their lives and fortunes, or "The What". According to his villages version of the tale the Muslims decided to take the What instead of cattle and that is why their people suffered.
Then, ok there was alot happening at once, the Muslim neighbors of these small Sudanese villages began to raid and pillage because the Sudanese goverment was in an uproar and about to collapse, and they were fighting the rebels so there was no one to protect the little people from bands of raiders. Things were not and did not end well for many characters we meet thus far. It is not a happy story like ever.
The narrator, Valentino Achak Deng, tells the story from his current misfortunes in the US while giving flashback narratives directed mentally at whomever is around (Boy who helped rob him, hospital receptionist, people at the gym he works at, etc).
My biggest issue with this book was that it's a fictional narrative, but the author wrote this story based on the real tale of the real life Valentino so it technically goes in fiction, but I'm itching to put it in history. Oh well.
Let me start with the "What" in question comes from a story our narrator's father used to tell where God offers the Sudanese cattle to start their lives and fortunes, or "The What". According to his villages version of the tale the Muslims decided to take the What instead of cattle and that is why their people suffered.
Then, ok there was alot happening at once, the Muslim neighbors of these small Sudanese villages began to raid and pillage because the Sudanese goverment was in an uproar and about to collapse, and they were fighting the rebels so there was no one to protect the little people from bands of raiders. Things were not and did not end well for many characters we meet thus far. It is not a happy story like ever.
The narrator, Valentino Achak Deng, tells the story from his current misfortunes in the US while giving flashback narratives directed mentally at whomever is around (Boy who helped rob him, hospital receptionist, people at the gym he works at, etc).
My biggest issue with this book was that it's a fictional narrative, but the author wrote this story based on the real tale of the real life Valentino so it technically goes in fiction, but I'm itching to put it in history. Oh well.