![]() ![]() He also illustrates the importance of the fortuitous intervention of kind and generous people-often strangers. In doing so, he offers a vivid picture of what happened and what it was like to experience this for someone who endured it. By following the life of a single individual, Kidder-who met Deo many years after Deo’s exodus and immigration-creates a narrative to reveal to a Western reader the effects of the genocide. In Part 2, “Gusimbura,” the author provides his first-person account of meeting Deo and the effect their subsequent travels had on him. Through the use of flashbacks, readers learn not only about the genocide from which Deo escaped, but also of the background leading up to this genocide and the continuing struggles Deo endured as he made his way as an immigrant in New York City. ![]() ![]() Part 1, “Flights,” shifts the narrative to several years earlier when Deo first arrived in New York City from Burundi. In the Introduction, readers first encounter Deo on a journey with Kidder to revisit the sites of the Hutu-Tutsi atrocities of the 1990s. ![]() Kidder does not narrate the book in a simple chronological format the two parts alternate between Deo’s story before and after he escapes Burundi. ![]()
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