"They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky"

Two years ago I went on the Darfur walk in Balboa Park. There i discovered the book They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. Withing a few weeks of receiving this book, I was immersed in the history and conflicts it described. The book is about three boys, all related who go through the struggles of the war in Sudan. They lose their families and traverse over hundreds of miles. They brave many hardships, including starvation, thirst exhaustion, crocodiles and the ever present threat of armed militias. This is book is the memoir of the three boys. The adventures and hardships as real as anything we experience. The three boys became lost boys, a group of thousands of boys that crossed the country together to get to safety. This book helped me a lot when i was writing my memoir. Notonly did it give me insight into what a real one looked like, David, the man we were interviewing became a lost boy as well. Below is the citation for the book. I suggest that anyone that has not or is not reading it should.

Ajak, Benjamin, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng, and Judy Burnstein. They Poured Fire on Us From the SKy. United States: Public Affairs, 2005.