The Girl Who Smiled Beads, a Story of War and What Comes After
The Girl Who Smiled Beads, a Story of War and What Comes After
High School / Rwanda / Biography and Memoir
Crown
2018
288 pp.
High School / Rwanda / Biography and Memoir
Crown
2018
288 pp.
"Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive...." Publisher
This book is excellent if you seek first hand description of what living as a refugee is on a day-to-day basis. It is a powerful story with a happy ending. The author is not as skilled when discussing her privileged position as a winner of the immigration lottery.