A Lost Boy Tells Sudan's Story
Amy Rowe Thursday, 1 March 2007
Dave Eggers, What is the What (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2006). 475 pp. $26.00.
Dave Eggers' What is the What is a fictionalized biography of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Sudanese "Lost Boys" displaced by the second phase of Sudan's civil war (1983-2005), developed through years of interviews by Eggers. The book provokes complex questions of policy and theology through conversational storytelling.
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