Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America

I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past. In this powerful, and propulsive memoir, Achut Deng and Keely Hutton tell a harrowing and inspiring story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.

Author: Achut Deng, Keely Hutton

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022

Number of Pages: 368 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover/Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN-10: 0374389721

ISBN-13: 9780374389727