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What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a novel written by Dave Eggers based on the real life story of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee, and member of the Lost Boys of Sudan program. As a boy separated from his family when the civil war in Sudan wipes out his village, he flees on foot with a group of other young boys (the "Lost Boys") taking him to Ethiopia and then a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the United States, encountering danger and hardship along the way.
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