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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
4.25 AVERAGE
922 reviews for:
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
4.25 AVERAGE
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slow-paced
This was beautiful and heart wrenching. I am in awe of Clemantine’s story, her journey, and her strength. I enjoyed the narrator and loved being able to hear Clemantine speak in the last chapter of the audiobook.
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Such an amazing book, I cannot recommend enough! Beautiful storytelling, exquisite writing and difficult but important insight into the author's feelings both during and after the war.
This is an excellent account of the Rwandan war by a survivor-a girl who escaped when she was 6 years old. The descriptions of her time in refugee camps is devastating. And her adjustment to life in America is also difficult. Well-written and important.
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I listened to this one on audiobook. A memoir that sheds light on the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The author was a young child at the time, but was able to escape the killings with her older sister. It follows them as they live in refugee camps, several countries and ultimately the United States. A very powerful read.
Very interesting book. I have learned a lot! So I think it's a very important book that everyone should read.
However, as a piece of literature, I think it ws not very catchy etc. But that doesn't matter.
However, as a piece of literature, I think it ws not very catchy etc. But that doesn't matter.
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
“I did not understand the point of the word genocide . . . The word is tidy and efficient. It holds no true emotion. It is impersonal when it needs to be intimate, cold and sterile when it needs to be gruesome. The word is hollow, true but disingenuous, a performance, the worst kind of lie” (Wamariya 93).
We know the word. We have heard the stories. Maybe we have even visited memorials, but Wamariya’s story reveals the real wound beneath the bandaid, the unvarnished reality of a child’s life torn apart by heinous atrocities. To borrow a word from Glennon Melton, this book is brutiul—full of the beauty and brutality of a life most of us can only imagine. Must read. Must witness. Must acknowledge. Must know.
We know the word. We have heard the stories. Maybe we have even visited memorials, but Wamariya’s story reveals the real wound beneath the bandaid, the unvarnished reality of a child’s life torn apart by heinous atrocities. To borrow a word from Glennon Melton, this book is brutiul—full of the beauty and brutality of a life most of us can only imagine. Must read. Must witness. Must acknowledge. Must know.