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A review by xcgirl93
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
4.5
"There’s a difference between story and experience. Experience is the whole mess, all that actually happened; a story is the pieces you string together, what you make of it, a guide to your own existence."
A very difficult but very important memoir of a young woman who, as a child and with her older sister, traveled through multiple refugee camps throughout several countries in Africa during the Rwanda Genocide. Clemantine, her sister Claire, and Claire's children are eventually granted refugee status and move to the United States where they must learn to reassemble their lives after years of turmoil and resiliency.
A very difficult but very important memoir of a young woman who, as a child and with her older sister, traveled through multiple refugee camps throughout several countries in Africa during the Rwanda Genocide. Clemantine, her sister Claire, and Claire's children are eventually granted refugee status and move to the United States where they must learn to reassemble their lives after years of turmoil and resiliency.