A review by hgranger
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore

4.0

The horrors of war seen through the eyes of a child, shielded by a giant of a parent. I was a little hesitant to read it because I read “Left to Tell” about the Rwandan genocide and it was so horrifying that I wasn’t sure I was up for another round of the atrocities humans commit towards one another. But because the story is told partially through a five year old’s point of view and partially in retrospect with a distance to the experience, it felt like a different experience. The horrors are still there, still sobering, and dreadful, and unbelievable. But the story is just so powerful and leaves a feeling of hope and goodness among all the evil of the world.
There were a couple of perspective shifts that made me have to reread a paragraph or two to find out who and when, but all in all what an incredibly beautiful book, showing trauma, agony, strength, and survival.