Sudanese Lost Boy John Bul Dau at the Sleeping Lady Nov 14, 7:00pm

John Bul Dau was just 13 when he was driven from his village and separated from his family in the raging civil war in southern Sudan. After spending years in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya he came to the U.S. in 2001 as one of the 4,000 Lost Boys of Sudan. John Bul Dau and others were featured in the 2006 award-winning documentary God Grew Tired of Us, and now his story has been released in a new book of the same name, published by National Geographic.

Tickets are $30.00, Seniors and Students $15.00.
For tickets and information, please call The Sleeping Lady at (509) 548-6344. If calling from out of the area, (800) 574-2123.

"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name. Movingly written, the book traces Dau's journey through hunger, exhaustion, terror, and violence as he fled his homeland, dodging ambushes, massacres and attacks by wild animals. His tortuous, 14-year journey began in 1987, when he was just 13, and took him on a 1,000-mile walk, barefoot, to Ethiopia, back to Sudan, then to a refugee camp in Kenya, where he lived with thousands of other Lost Boys. In 2001, at the age of 27, he immigrated to the United States. With touching humor, Dau recounts the shock of his tribal culture colliding with life in America. He shares the joy of reuniting with his family and the challenges of making a new life for himself while never forgetting the other Lost Boys he left behind.

"...this is a stark, first-person account of trauma and survival. Dau tells it quietly, in fast, simple prose true to the young teen's viewpoint. He's funny about the culture shock in America and honest about his years in the camp..." — Booklist Review

"This is a memoir of terror, triumph and humour as Bul Dau adapts to his new life, learning along the way that differences can be bridged peacefully." — Windsor Star (Ontario)

Visit the John Dau Sudan Foundation web site!

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