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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : lopez Lomong
Genre : Memoir
Lopez was born in 1985 in Kimotong, Sudan and he ran everywhere. He was six years old and barefoot when he was stolen from his parents to be taught to carry a gun and fight for the rebels during the Sudanese Civil War. He and three other boys escaped and landed in a refugee camp in Kenya. In order to play on the soccer team, he had to run 14 miles around the camp before he was allowed to play soccer. As one of the lost boys of Sudan. This book chronicles his survival in a prison refugee camp, how he arrived in the U.S. through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program, and his journey from a high-school track star to U.S. Olympic team captain. An example of the American dream come true.
“Life may have been hard, but we were happy. Yes, boys died and food was difficult to come by, but at least no one was shooting at us. We only ate one meal a day, but for me, coming into the camp at age six, I accepted this as normal. I never thought that life was unfair because I had to eat garbage. Instead, I looked at the scraps of food from the dump as a blessing. Not all the boys in the camp could do this. I knew some who chose to feel sorry for themselves, who complained constantly about their lot in life. What is the point of complaining? After all the whining and complaining is over, you still live in a refugee camp. It will not make your life any better. Instead, you must choose to make the best of whatever the situation in which you find yourself, even in a place like Kakuma.”
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