"The Lost Boys" is the near-mythical name for thousands of young men from northern Sudan who fled civil war and ethnic repression by traveling, on foot, through southern Sudan to Ethiopia. After an almost three-year journey across deserts and war-torn lands, where hundreds died from exhaustion, exposure, or bullets, they arrived in Ethiopia, only to be expelled and forced again to walk to refugee camps in Kenya. Benjamin and His Brother follows two brothers, "Lost Boys" from the camps who now prepare to be resettled in the United States. While one remains in the camp, the other relocates to Houston, Texas, and discovers an entirely new set of problems and challenges. A fascinating look at immigrant life, and at the dilemmas facing young men who dream of American education but are instead greeted with minimum-wage American jobs, Benjamin and His Brother also helps personalize one of recent times' most infamous examples of forced exile.