Sudan's 'Lost Boys' Return Home

By Jen Marlowe

October 25, 2007

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Three young men who fled the fighting in South Sudan as boys to grow up and be educated in three different US cities return home. In an emotional journey, they reunite with with loved ones, grieve over those who have died, and offer the skills they acquired in America to help a struggling people.

Jen Marlowe's reporting in South Sudan, published in The Nation magazine, was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute Investigative Fund.

About Jen Marlowe

Jen Marlowe is the author of Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival (Nation Books), which is included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading Collection 2007. She is working on Rebuilding Hope, a film about South Sudan, and writing a book and a play about Palestine and Israel. more...
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