A stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin--hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a "moving, beautifully written account, by turns warm and tender."

Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that,...