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    Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder.
    by Kidder, Tracy
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    New York : Random House, c2009.
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  • Dartmouth Medical School -- Biography.
  •  
  • Burundian Americans -- Biography.
  •  
  • Immigrants -- Biography
  •  
  • Genocide -- Burundi -- History -- 20th century.
  •  
  • Refugees -- Burundi -- Biography.
  •  
  • Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
  •  
  • Medical students -- Biography
  •  
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
  • Edition: 
    1st ed.
    ISBN: 
    9781400066216 (acid-free paper) :
    Contents: 
    Flights -- Gusimbura.
    Summary: 
    The true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
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    xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cm.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277).
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