Continuing the Eggers-a-thon

• Title: What is the What
• Author: Dave Eggers
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• Rating: 4 balls

The latest in Dave Eggers fiction (the first was And You Shall Know Our Velocity).

An incredible book that he eludes to in the beginning being based on a true story related to him by an African refuge. 

The story weaves a tale of a young boy who narrowly escapes death in his village, first by a guerrilla group and then the government counter attack.  He is alone and attempting to make it to a refuge camp while trying to avoid being killed or made to join a child army. 
It jumps back forth to his adventures on the run, his time in the camp, and also his life in America after gaining the opportunity to start anew here.

I can not recommend Dave Eggers enough.  He is one of the few writers that if he shit on a piece of paper and called it a novel, I would go out and buy it.

•   Comments(0)    Posted by killer on 10/11 at 08:48 PM
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