Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Title: Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After Author: Clemantine Wamariya ISBN: 9780451495334 Publisher: Crown Published: 2019 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Section: Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs Publisher Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale." 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