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Of beetles and angels : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard

Title
Of beetles and angels : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard / Mawi Asgedom ; edited by Dave Berger.
Author
Mawi Asgedom
Publication
  • New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
Berger, Dave
Description
165 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm
Summary
An autobiography of a boy who, at the age of three, fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago and earned a scholarship to Harvard University. This fifteenth anniversary edition features bonus materials, including a new introduction and afterword by the author, as well as discussion questions.
Subject
  • Mawi Asgedom > Childhood and youth
  • Mawi Asgedom
  • Ethiopian Americans > Biography
  • Immigrants > United States > Biography
  • Refugee children > Sudan > Biography
  • Refugees > Sudan > Biography
  • Ethiopian Americans
  • Immigrants
  • Refugee children
  • Refugees
  • Sudan
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • "Megan Tingley books"--Title page.
  • "Special expanded 15th anniversary edition"--Page [4] of cover.
Contents
Introduction -- Author's note -- Memories -- The Camp -- Coming to America -- A New Life -- God's Angels -- Playground Warfare -- Days of Mischief -- Libee Migbar -- Coffee Tales -- The Making of a Man -- The Unmaking of a Man -- Eyeing the Mountaintop -- Father Haileab -- Izgihare Yihabkoom -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- "Brother" -- Acknowledgments -- Giving back -- Mama Tsege's Legendary Habesha Recipes -- Questions and answers with Mawi -- Reading group guide.
Call Number
Sc D 21-387
ISBN
  • 9780316826204
  • 0316826200
OCLC
1242316027
Author
Mawi Asgedom, author.
Title
Of beetles and angels : a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard / Mawi Asgedom ; edited by Dave Berger.
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
First 15th anniversary edition: June 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Berger, Dave, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc D 21-387
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