I’ve been curious and felt responsible to know more about what it is that allows me to empathize with stories that seem to be so radically removed from my own. And what is lost or transformed in the telling of these stories? Writer-editor Eggers does a quietly and to me masterfully effective and affecting job of re-presenting the stories of a Valentino Achat Deng of Sudan.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/books/whatisthewhat.html

Totally engaging read!