by Dave EggersWhen I heard that Angelina Jolie was reading it and that it was Dave Eggers' latest and that it was about Sudan, I had to get it. I read it in a whirlwind of three days so I could be all set to go when Harry Potter dropped. And now I feel like I've been drug through hell and spit back out.
What Is the What is the fictionalized memoir of of a Sudanese boy's coming of age and his travails as a refugee framed in a day of his adult life in Atlanta. It is inspired by a true story which makes it all the more difficult to bear.
How could God allow so many people to die with so little dignity? Boys taken in the jaws of lions, children shot dead because they ran from their captors, thousands of people perishing from dehydration, starvation and exhaustion. Was this so we could know what humans could endure? Even the person with the strongest will to live will wonder why these people kept going. And when you close the book you will still be wondering.
Probably the hardest part about it was that the narrator was an indisputably good man and those he loved were also honestly good people. And yet, there were no rewards in this life for them. Why?
General Consensus: Powerful and engrossing. Kudos to Eggers for writing something devoid of pretension.
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