strength in what remains by tracy kidder

I expect we will hear more of Deogratias. Rather, he's very much inside it.Ībsorbing, at times horrifying, ultimately hopeful.

He doesn't just tell the story from an arm's length. Kidder's approach is warm and sympathetic. In fact, it is probably his friendship with Farmer and his organization that led to his hearing the story of Deogratias and then befriending him. What distinguishes both books from most biographies is the fact that Kidder becomes a friend, a close friend, to his subjects. The one other book I have read by Kidder is Mountains Beyond Mountains, the story of Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, now an international organization dedicated to bringing good medical care to all parts of the world. It is thus a story of hope in spite of the horrors, both in Burundi and New York. The story is of a remarkable man and of the remarkable persons who helped along the way. Through their help he found his way to college, to earning a medical degree, and finally to returning to his country to try to fulfill a lifelong dream there. She found a safe place for him to live, with an educated couple who also saw promise in the young man. She was determined to find help for him, and in time she actually did. A woman in a church was drawn to his story, to his personality. He survived by working long hours at difficult, underpaid jobs, putting up with prejudice and worse. Deogratias (known simply as Deo) spent a long time on the streets, taking showers in apartments that were not his. The story of a young man from Burundi, who narrowly escaped death during a civil war and genocide there, who landed in New York and managed to make something of himself.

Strength in what remains by tracy kidder