The Poured Fire on Us from the Sky - Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein - 5 Stars

[Jason]

I was born in 1988. I grew up a normal southern life and though it had some difficulties, I am still amazed that at the same time, these 3 boys were living in a fearful, cruel, and painful hell every day, always on the brink of being killed by warriors or starvation.

I can't express the hurt I feel, imagining my son and daughter being born into the atrocities that took place in Sudan. The most baffling is the cruelty of the average people trying to survive. How they treated each other, especially orphaned children is mind boggling.

I know these things have happened and are happening in the world, but it always hits hard learning about actual experiences. Making it more real than just a trivia fact.

Books like these should be required reading.