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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya
“Battlefield, a directionless, disorienting fog of violence”
Though I have a bunch of pages in my diary filled with my favourite quotes from the book, I guess this one sums up the feeling of the author.
The girl who smiled beads is a memoir of the Author Clementine Wamariya. She talks about the genocide (The civil war) in Rwanda. The aftermath of the war on the lives of people who had nothing to with it. Clementine was 6 years old when she had to run away with her sister Claire because of the civil war in Rwanda. They lived in various refugee camps, crossed various borders, lived as refugees in many countries before landing in USA.
Clementine and Claire are refugees who after struggling for more than 6-7 years gets settled in The United States. Clementine who was a teenage girl by the time they get in USA, gets adopted by a family and gets a ‘chance’ to study. She writes an essay on her favourite book ‘Night’(based on the same topic) for Oprah’s essay competition and gets the opportunity to be on the show.
This is where her story begins where she starts sharing her REAL story.
“I knew I was six, Age made no sense anymore”
“Bodies were scattered everywhere, lifeless yet alive”
“It’s strange how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all”
“We walked for hours, until everything hurt. Not toward anything. JUST AWAY”
“THEM. Always plural.
THEM were not welcomed.
THEM were not guests”
These are some of the quotes from the book I found that conveys what’s in the book more precisely.
The book is written in a manner that you wouldn’t want to keep it aside. There will be times when you would want and even pray to god that this must be fictional. This shouldn’t be real.
What war brings is something unimaginable and what a person goes through because of the war is so hard to put into words.
A six year old, our author in the book says in one sentence everything we need to know about the war:
“I never imagined that civilisation could look so forlorn”
“I had so much to share & nothing at all to share. We all loved lives my parents never dreamed of us having”
The book is written In such a manner that you would want to read every page twice or thrice to make yourself sure of what you just read. You would want everything that is written in the book to end just there. You would want to have a happy ever after for every single person. There will be times when you will be scared to turn the page. You will cry. And more than anything you will be grateful for everything, I repeat, everything you have.The book is talking about a journey you don’t want anybody in the world to take.
It’s a must have book in your library.
The writing style gets all the points in the world.
I can’t thank enough Clementine for introducing me to Claire. I would be grateful if I can be even 1% of the person she is.
You still haven’t got the whole point??
Ohh come on, go get yourself a copy. NOW.
My very first 5
Though I have a bunch of pages in my diary filled with my favourite quotes from the book, I guess this one sums up the feeling of the author.
The girl who smiled beads is a memoir of the Author Clementine Wamariya. She talks about the genocide (The civil war) in Rwanda. The aftermath of the war on the lives of people who had nothing to with it. Clementine was 6 years old when she had to run away with her sister Claire because of the civil war in Rwanda. They lived in various refugee camps, crossed various borders, lived as refugees in many countries before landing in USA.
Clementine and Claire are refugees who after struggling for more than 6-7 years gets settled in The United States. Clementine who was a teenage girl by the time they get in USA, gets adopted by a family and gets a ‘chance’ to study. She writes an essay on her favourite book ‘Night’(based on the same topic) for Oprah’s essay competition and gets the opportunity to be on the show.
This is where her story begins where she starts sharing her REAL story.
“I knew I was six, Age made no sense anymore”
“Bodies were scattered everywhere, lifeless yet alive”
“It’s strange how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all”
“We walked for hours, until everything hurt. Not toward anything. JUST AWAY”
“THEM. Always plural.
THEM were not welcomed.
THEM were not guests”
These are some of the quotes from the book I found that conveys what’s in the book more precisely.
The book is written in a manner that you wouldn’t want to keep it aside. There will be times when you would want and even pray to god that this must be fictional. This shouldn’t be real.
What war brings is something unimaginable and what a person goes through because of the war is so hard to put into words.
A six year old, our author in the book says in one sentence everything we need to know about the war:
“I never imagined that civilisation could look so forlorn”
“I had so much to share & nothing at all to share. We all loved lives my parents never dreamed of us having”
The book is written In such a manner that you would want to read every page twice or thrice to make yourself sure of what you just read. You would want everything that is written in the book to end just there. You would want to have a happy ever after for every single person. There will be times when you will be scared to turn the page. You will cry. And more than anything you will be grateful for everything, I repeat, everything you have.The book is talking about a journey you don’t want anybody in the world to take.
It’s a must have book in your library.
The writing style gets all the points in the world.
I can’t thank enough Clementine for introducing me to Claire. I would be grateful if I can be even 1% of the person she is.
You still haven’t got the whole point??
Ohh come on, go get yourself a copy. NOW.
My very first 5