The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
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Author
Contributors
Weil, Elizabeth, 1969- author.
Published
New York : Crown, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : map ; 22 cm
Status
Waterloo Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
967.571 WAM
1 available
967.571 WAM
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Massacre survivors -- Rwanda -- Biography.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Refugees -- Rwanda -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees.
Unaccompanied refugee children -- Biography.
Wamariya, Clemantine.
Autobiographies.
Massacre survivors -- Rwanda -- Biography.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Refugees -- Rwanda -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Refugees.
Unaccompanied refugee children -- Biography.
Wamariya, Clemantine.
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Published
New York : Crown, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40028179889
Notes
Description
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 so long protected and provided for Clemantine, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school, taking up cheerleading, and, ultimately, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. In this memoir, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of "victim" and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wamariya, C., & Weil, E. (2018). The girl who smiled beads: a story of war and what comes after (First edition.). Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wamariya, Clemantine and Elizabeth Weil. 2018. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After. Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wamariya, Clemantine and Elizabeth Weil. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After Crown, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wamariya, Clemantine,, and Elizabeth Weil. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After First edition., Crown, 2018.
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