For their first assignment as college students, the Class of 2012 will read "What is the What," by Dave Eggers, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius."

The Duke Summer Reading program selection committee, which is in its seventh year, announced its decision last week.

The book tells the novelized life story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, a group of men orphaned or separated from their families during the Second Sudanese Civil War and who later relocated to the United States.

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