Sunday, 5 April 2015

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

I read this March 2015

I picked this up when Borders in USA closed,so I have had it for quite a while
This is a biography of Deo a young man from Burundi,escaping the horrors of war an travelling through Rwanda.  He manages to get to New York.  He had previously been a medical student, but had to take the most menial jobs in the States.  He is befriended by a couple who pay for his medical education.  The author follows him back to Burundi and tells of all his family's troubles and Deo's attempts to build a medical centre.
I didn't really warm to this book at first but once I did and got into the style I was really captured by the story and enjoyed it.
9/10

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