In November, Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng held public discussions of the 2015 Memphis Reads selection What is the What, a novel Eggers published in 2006 with the subtitle, The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction even though it tells the true story of Valentino, who trekked a thousand miles as one of Sudan's so-called Lost Boys.