Let’s talk about your book!

Simply fill out the form below to select a date & time for your no obligation consultation
to see if self-publishing with Outskirts Press is right for you.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

The Boy from Pleebo

A Story of Survival and Perseverance

by Sylvester Youlo, MD

Paperback

Retail Price: $19.95

Buy 1-9 copies: $17.96 each save 10%
Buy 10 or more: $9.98 each save 50 %
Cost: $17.96
You save: 10%
Book Details: Scroll below for more information about this book, provided directly by the author.

Product description...


Have you ever wondered: “Did that emaciated and tattered-clothed African refugee child on TV ever have childhood aspirations?” Meet Sylvester Youlo—born to teenage parents in Pleebo, a small town in Liberia, where survival into adulthood isn’t sure, and a college education is an impossible dream. Consequence of a class-segregation created by free slaves from the United States that settled in this coastal West African country in 1821, it is at five years of age when Sylvester first realizes that the woman he knows as Yah is his grandmother; that his parents moved to the affluent city of Monrovia—a city that holds the keys to success—in pursuit of the life of the country’s elite Americo-Liberians when he was only nine months old. But just as he begins to understand this reality, and starts to imagine a glorious future alongside his parents in the big city, life implodes when Grandmother inexplicably ‘abandons’ Sylvester to relatives, and a brutal civil war that will kill and maim thousands soon begins. The Boy from Pleebo is the gut-wrenching yet heartwarming story of a young African child’s struggle to maintain his innocent-optimism in the face of crippling illnesses, poverty, near-death experiences from a war fraught with ethnic cleansing of his tribe, his hopeless journey through years of refugee camps, and how he became one of top graduates in an American medical school. It is a story of perseverance, survival, and never quitting on a dream. (Title change. Previously titled, A Series of Transforming events as an ebook)

Product details...

Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 299 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jul 29, 2014)
ISBN10: 1478735619
ISBN13: 9781478735618
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Author Information...

Sylvester Youlo, MDDr. Sylvester Youlo was born in Liberia, West Africa. He moved to the United States after spending almost six years in various refugee camps in Africa, due to a civil war that killed thousands in his home country. His life, the sociopolitical make-up of Liberia, and how that led to a fourteen-year civil war is the basis of The Boy from Pleebo.
Visit the author's webpage at
https://outskirtspress.com/aseriesoftransformingevents
for more information.

Many author webpages include:
ebook editions
sample text
audio excerpts and videos

See what Outskirts Press authors are saying about their self-publishing experience