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Walk toward the rising sun : from child soldier to ambassador of peace : a memoir

Title
  1. Walk toward the rising sun : from child soldier to ambassador of peace : a memoir / by Ger Duany with Garen Thomas.
Published by
  1. New York : Make Me a World, 2020
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Duany, Ger, 1978-

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Additional authors
  1. Thomas, Garen
Description
  1. 306 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table; 22 cm
Summary
  1. The amazing autobiography of a young Sudanese boy who went from a child soldier to an international peace activist, a struggling refugee to a Hollywood actor. Sudan, 1980s: Ger Duany knew what he wanted out of life--make his family proud, play with his brothers and sisters, maybe get an education like his brother Oder suggested, and become a soldier for his people when he's old enough. But then his village was attacked by the North Sudanese military, death kept taking his loved ones away, and being a child soldier was not what he thought it would be. Amid heartbreak, death, and violence, can this lost boy find his way to safety? America, 1990s: After boarding a flight without his family to seek refuge in a foreign country, Ger worked tirelessly to adjust to a new life. It wasn't long before he was thrown into the spotlight, as people discovered his talents for basketball, modeling, and acting. Yet the spotlight wasn't the only thing following him, as he battled the effects of PTSD, resisted the siren call of the excesses of fame, and endured a new kind of racism in America. Amid fame, trauma, and the memory of home, can this lost boy find himself?
Subject
  1. Duany, Ger, 1978- > Juvenile literature
  2. Since 1983
  3. Child soldiers > Biography > Juvenile literature
  4. Refugees > Sudan > Biography > Juvenile literature
  5. Male models > Biography > Juvenile literature
  6. Actors > Biography > Juvenile literature
  7. Political activists > Sudan > Biography
  8. Actors
  9. Child soldiers
  10. Male models
  11. Refugees
  12. Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Juvenile literature
  13. Sudan
Genre/Form
  1. Young adult literature.
  2. Autobiographies.
  3. Biographies.
  4. History.
  5. Juvenile works.
Call number
  1. Sc D 21-559
Author
  1. Duany, Ger, 1978- author.
Title
  1. Walk toward the rising sun : from child soldier to ambassador of peace : a memoir / by Ger Duany with Garen Thomas.
Publisher
  1. New York : Make Me a World, 2020
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological term
  1. Since 1983
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Thomas, Garen, author.
ISBN
  1. 9781524719401 (hardcover)
  2. 1524719404 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 21-559
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