The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after

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Label

The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after

Title remainder

a story of war and what comes after

Statement of responsibility

Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

Creator

• Wamariya, Clemantine

Contributor

• Weil, Elizabeth, 1969-

Author

• Wamariya, Clemantine
• Weil, Elizabeth, 1969-

Subject

• Refugees -- Biography
• Wamariya, Clemantine
• Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees

Language

eng

Summary

"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. They did not know whether their parents were alive. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in the United States. Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, this book captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory. A riveting story of dislocation, survival."--

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Provided by the publisher."

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

• 967.57104/31
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

DT450.437.W36

LC item number

A3 2018

Literary form

non fiction