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Author Dave Eggers – Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n From the bestselling author of\u00a0A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,\u00a0What Is the What\u00a0is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children \u2014the so-called Lost Boys\u2014was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom.<\/p>\n When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges.<\/p>\n Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author Dave Eggers – Sudan Events From the bestselling author of\u00a0A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,\u00a0What Is the What\u00a0is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children \u2014the so-called Lost Boys\u2014was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-this-weeks-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6998,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}