Who Is Tracy Kidder's Strength In What Remains?

“Strength In What Remains” by Tracy Kidder, might seem a companion piece to his best-selling ”Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World” (2003). This story starts out as Farmer, whose foundation Partner’s in Health has reinvented health care delivery in some of the world’s poorest regions, figures briefly in this new book as a mentor to its central figure, Deogratias Niyizonkiza. Kidder in fact met Deo in Boston while researching Farmer’s history, though three years elapsed before he began investigating Deo’s own dramatic story. Deo escaped from the 1993-1994 ethnic genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. He reinvented himself as an American immigrant, and, inspired by Partner’s in Health, returned