'Don't Look Back': refugee, plant worker from Sudan writes of survival

In her memoir 'Don’t Look Back', Deng shares her story of fleeing massacres, surviving as a refugee and facing a pandemic nightmare in her book. Photo: AP

As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co-workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, she worried she was going to die.

It wasn't the first time she felt the imminent threat of death.