MEMBER BLOG TAG: southern sudan
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:53AM | | | | The Lost Boys of Sudan | Tags: Mary Williams, Southern Sudan, Darfur, militia
| | | | Valentino Achak Deng had a surprise for the hundreds (at least, it looked like hundreds) of people waiting on line to see him and Dave Eggers at the Donnell Library on Thursday night: he had become a US citizen the day before! At Eggers’ prompting he opened the folder he had brought with him and showed us the certificate. We all applauded heartily. It was a sweet moment in an evening full of heart-warming and wrenching moments. And hugely informative – at least for those of us, like me, who hadn’t yet read What is the What.
For us, the biggest surprise of the evening was to put a face on the hero of Dave Eggers’ “novel,” and to discover how their unique collaboration came about.
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