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Mar 09, 2021
Never Forget Who You Are by
Achut Deng (l.) and
Keely Hutton. The narrative follows Deng s harrowing escape from her home village in South Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the U.S., where she arrived as part of a group of “Lost Boys. Told through the testimony of Deng s losses including her name, her family, and her home the YA memoir is the story of how Deng struggled to overcome exploitation and abuse and reclaim the things she lost by holding on to who she is. Publication is set for winter 2022; Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts at HG Literary did the deal for world rights.