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mscalls's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Genocide, Blood, Child death, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, War, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Gore, Death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
abitbetterbooks's review against another edition
5.0
While this book is about the Rwandan genocide, not too much detail is provided about the genocide itself; there are plenty of books I’m sure you can read to learn more about it. Of course the author contextualizes it and what happened, but the majority of the book is about the impact of the conflict on her life and the subsequent journey, through many countries, refugee camps, bus rides, generous families and friends, evil guards and immigration police, and ultimately, her life in America. I appreciated in particular Clemantine’s exploration of her feelings of anger, lack of safety, need for survival, and fears of abandonment, and the deconstruction of the role of “refugee” she was meant to play, both on the Oprah show and other instances of tokenization.
I flagged many moments in this book and I can’t wait to go though and annotate them in my physical copy. Obviously there are many trigger warnings for this book but I highly recommend reading, with caution!
Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Child abuse, War, Violence, Grief, and Genocide
Moderate: Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Rape
Minor: Infidelity
massivepizzacrust's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death
This book discusses the genocide in Rwanda and it doesn't hide much but it also doesn't dwell on the gruesomeness of the violence. Things that happen to the author or her sister are described in past tense. The author discusses sexual violence throughout the book but never a specific incident.