God Threw Me Back

Gatluk G. Digiew is a little boy cowherd when Civil War erupts in his homeland South Sudan and upends his life forever. His memoir God Threw Me Back: A Child Survives War in Sudan tells his horrific story through the eyes of a child. Gatluk is wrenched from his family at age nineshot and left for dead at thirteen. During his agonizing often solitary four-year journey to recovery and safely in a new homeland Gatluk draws courage from his fathers early lessons and deep Christian faith. Gatluk emerges not as a victim but as a voice for the battered children of war who cannot speak for themselves.