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

3.0

I always feel terrible rating memoirs because I feel like I'm rating their life. That's not the case. I'm rating how they told their story. I didn't know much about the Rwandan genocide and felt she needed to include some background. Additionally, I felt the writing was mediocre and disjointing because of all the time jumps. I found the actual story of her leaving Rwanda and everything that happens quite compelling. But at the end she focuses a lot of her PTSD, anger, and speaking engagements which I was less interested in, especially because it seemed chaotically put together. Overall, it was illuminating but I could probably find something more informative than this book.