While the book might recall Dave Eggers's novelized version of a real-life Sudanese refugee's experience in What Is the What Kidder renders his subject with deep yet unfussy fidelity and the conflict with detail and nuance. Told in flashbacks from Deo's 2006 return visit to Burundi to mid-1990s New York and the Burundi of childhood memory and young adulthood-as the Rwandan genocide spilled across the border following the same inflamed ethnic divisions-then picking up in 2003, when author and subject first meet, Deo's experience is conveyed with a remarkable depth of vision and feeling. ) recounts the story of Deo, the Burundian former medical student turned American émigré at the center of this strikingly vivid story. With an anthropologist's eye and a novelist's pen, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kidder ( Mountains Beyond Mountains
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