The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages275 pages
ISBN
9780385687003
Published
2018
Description
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." It was 1994, and i...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." It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven african countries searching for safety--hiding under beds, foraging for food, surviving and fleeing refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing unimaginable cruelty.