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Josh Ruxin’s A Thousand Hills of Heaven: Building A Restaurant In Rwanda

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In his new book, Columbia professor Josh Ruxin tells the tale of picking up and moving to deepest Rwanda, where he helped revitalize a village and fell in love with a little restaurant called Heaven.

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via Little, Brown and Company

From a cocktail party came a village.

Veteran development worker and Columbia professor Josh Ruxin’s life-changing voyage began when one of those too-good-to-pass-up offers presented itself at a rooftop gathering in New York City.

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