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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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Details
- 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
- 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