Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

1 review

sonj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Following the Rwandan Genocide, a young girl and her siblings are displaced and must fight for their right to live in a world that will never understand them. Without community, family, or earthly belongings, the siblings make allies throughout African refugee camps and become tokenized in American media. The emotional struggle of the (understandably) unreliable narrator is both funny and ruthless and makes this book a heartbreaking triumph.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, and Xenophobia