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I found myself cackling in corners and waylaying members of my family to read them passages from this book. That is always a good sign. For anyone who read "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," which I felt like showed great promise for the first 2/3 and petered out disappointingly at the end, "What is the What" is like the good 2/3. Except with a heartwrenching, horrific plot. And lions. Eggers writes a fictionalized autobiography in the voice of one of the (real-life, not made-up) Lost Boys of Sudan, one of the young men who was orphaned during the Sudanese civil war and subsequently wandered the African continent looking for safety and a place to rest. Read it. It will make you laugh, cry, and generally be horrified.

2020-09-19 03:57