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How fast can you run: a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch
Fiction (novel, short story)

How fast can you run: a novel based on the life of Michael Majok Kuch

Harvard Square Editions
2016

Abstract

Emigration and immigration Histoire Réfugiés Soudanais Sudanese History Refugees
Based on the real-life of Michael Majok Kuch, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, follow the five-year-old boy's flight from war in southern Sudan, and his journey to find his mother. When the US grants approximately 4,000 unaccompanied minors political asylum, Majok becomes Michael, and he is given a new start in the US. Unfortunately his new life is not without trauma. This is the true saga of a survivor who summons the courageous spirit of millions of refugees throughout history, and it lives on today.

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