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

5.0

"I did not understand the point of the word genocide then. I resent and revile it now. the word is tidy and efficient. it holds no true emotion. it is impersonal when it needs to be intimate, cool and sterile when it needs to be gruesome. The word is hollow, true but disingenuous, a performance, the worst kind of lie"

This is one of those books that I believe everyone should read. It is about a terrifying and gruesome time in Rwanda in 1994, where two sisters travel to hell and back a few times. This story will always stay with me.