TY - BOOK AU - Eggers, Dave TI - What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng SN - 978-0-141-01574-3 PB - Penguin Group KW - Fiction KW - Historical N2 - This is the story of a man who, as a boy was seperated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild animals; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who, as a boy considered ending his life to end the suffering; and who eventually made it to America, where a new and equally challenging journey began. His name is Valentino Achak Deng ER -