The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Clemantine Wamariya • 2018
Devastation Rating
refugee Rwanda genocide identity
Our Take
Wamariya fled the Rwandan genocide at age six and spent the next six years in refugee camps across Africa. She eventually reached America and everyone called her story inspirational. This memoir refuses that framing. Survival is not inspiration. It is damage with a different ending.
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