What they meant for evil : how a lost girl of Sudan found healing, peace, and purpose in the midst of suffering / Rebecca Deng with Ginger Kolbaba.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : FaithWords, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 282 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781546013204
- 1546013202
- 9781546017226
- Deng, Rebecca
- Christian biography -- Sudan
- Christian biography -- United States
- Refugee children -- Sudan -- Biography
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Personal narratives
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Children -- Biography
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Refugees -- Biography
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Adult Display - Second Floor | Deng, R. D392 | Immigrant Heritage Month - June 2024 | Available | 33111009710027 | |||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Biography | Deng, R. D392 | Available | 33111008244028 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys but now, for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story.
One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked and she had to escape. What They Meant for Evil is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child, Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire, suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses, dodging life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles, and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps, and grappling with a war that stole her childhood.
Her story is a lyrical, captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime, and how through divine intervention, she came to America and found a new life full of joy, hope, and redemption.
A lost girl -- Home -- The joy of innocence -- "They are coming!" -- What no child should see -- "You must go" -- Gone -- The long road -- The sky is falling! -- Left behind -- Stuck -- A new place to settle -- A ray of hope -- The marriage proposal -- At long last -- Safe -- Welcome to America -- A new way of life -- Promise -- Pursuit of a calling -- Though none go with me -- Working toward peace and healing -- No longer lost.
Shares the author's story of how she fled the Sudan in 2000 and came to the United States as an unaccompanied refugee child, including how she survived gunfire, human and animal predators, hunger, and illness.