The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

by Elizabeth Weil and Clemantine Wamariya

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451495330
• ISBN13: 9780451495334
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"