100booksyearly 's review for:

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, The Girl Who Smiled Beads captures the 

true costs and aftershocks of 

RWANDAN GENOCIDE.

One of the best trauma memoirs I’ve read. 

I so appreciated how Wamaria insist on 

telling her story on her terms: 

telling us what she wanted to share, 

keeping back what’s hers, and not worrying about pissing off anyone to tell her truth.