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Of beetles and angels : a true story of the American dream / Mawi Asgedom ; edited by Dave Berger.

Title
Of beetles and angels : a true story of the American dream / Mawi Asgedom ; edited by Dave Berger.
Author
Mawi Asgedom
Publication
Chicago, IL : megadee books, c2001.

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Additional Authors
Berger, Dave
Description
148 p. : map; 20 cm.
Summary
The inspiring story of Mawi Asgedom, a refugee from civil war in east Africa who sixteen years later delivered the commencement address at his graduation from Harvard University.
Alternative Title
True story of the American dream
Subject
  • Mawi Asgedom
  • Harvard University > Biography
  • Success
  • Ethiopians > United States > Biography
  • Eritreans > United States > Biography
  • Political refugees > Africa, Eastern > Biography
  • Political refugees > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Memories -- New life -- Playground warfare -- Camp -- God's angels -- Days of mischief -- Libee migbar -- Making of a man -- Coffee tales -- Unmaking of a man -- Eyeing the mountaintop -- Father haileab -- Izgihare Yihabkoom.
ISBN
  • 0970498268
  • 0970498276 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 46371226
  • SCSB-10857845
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library