neo1 's review for:

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

5.0

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Upon leaving Kenya and the refugee camp to live in America, Valentino Achak Deng declares to a scared fellow Lost Boy, "Our people, I said, had been punished for centuries for our errors, but now we were being given a chance to rectify all that. We had been tested as none before had been tested. We had been sent into the unknown once, and then again and again. We had be thrown this way and that, like rain in the wind of a hysterical storm. -But we're no longer rain, I said,-we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. This is our first chance to choose our own unknown."

WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers is one of the most compassionate stories of survival that I have ever read.