The Girl Who Smiled Beads A Story of War and What Comes After
eAudio - 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.” Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine ...was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there, in Chicago, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable, Claire, who had for...
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File Size | 259 GB |
Parts | 8 |
ISBN | 9780525526315 |
Release Date | 4/24/2018 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 259 GB |
ISBN | 9780525526315 |
Release Date | 4/24/2018 |