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Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s.  You might not even notice him—a black man pushing a grocery cart on a busy New York street—“a grocery boy too old to be a grocery boy,” you might think.  But thanks to Tracy Kidder, you can meet this man, learn where he came from and what came next after his job as a “grocery boy.”  Deogratias was born and raised in Burundi.  He was studying medicine there when all hell broke loose and civil war claimed the lives of 50,000 people.  He spent six months escaping one slaughter after another.  The French father of one of his fellow students bought him a ticket and Deo arrived in New York with $200 and a determination to survive.  How he taught himself English, graduated from Columbia and Harvard School of Medicine, and then went back to start medical clinics in the regions that had persecuted his people makes a story you won’t soon forget.  Read Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder, a true story of a true hero.  You’ll find it at Otto’s, 'a booklover’s paradise, in the heart of downtown Williamsport.'

Strength in What Remains (Hardcover)

By Tracy Kidder

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9781400066216
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House, 08/01/2009

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