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

5.0

If you want a feel-good story with a happy Oprah ending, this may not be the book for you. If you really want to read a book about trauma and its aftermath, this is your book right here. That's not to say there are not moments of triumph and success, just that Wamariya steadily refuses to make things easy for you (the reader). She maintains her right to tell her own, complicated story. And that is a beautiful thing.