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Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America
Achut Deng, Keely Hutton
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-38972-7
Keywords: Sudan, families, community, civil war, persecution, refugees, transplantation, sexual abuse, perseverance
Achut Deng, one of the few Sudanese girls included in the migration of Lost Boys, recounts her path to American citizenship. A story of love, sacrifice, and family devotion.