An emotional retelling of the Sudanese civil war

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The Sudanese civil war retold in A Long Walk To Water. The short novel follows two parallel timelines, both based on true stories — the stories of Salva Dut in 1985 and Nya in 2008. Dut is a young boy who gets separated from his family during the Sudanese civil war, spending weeks on the run in hopes to find his family again until he reaches a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Dut spends the remainder of his childhood in the camp until he is relocated to New York to live with an American family and from there the two timelines connect and the story comes full circle. The short novel is a peek into the struggles of the Sudanese who witnessed the civil war, the losses they endured, and the sacrifices they had to make.