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[2018]., Crown Publishing Call No: B Wamariya Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Memoir of Clemantine Wamariya, who when she was six years old escaped with Claire, her fifteen-year-old sister, from the Rwandan massacre. She would spend the next six years hungry, abused, and traveling from camp to camp, until she and Claire were both granted refugee status in the U.S. There their lives diverged, and on the surface Clemantine seemed to be living the American dream, but underneath she had to struggle to re-invent her life on her terms and escape the painful memories of her past.
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[2018]., Crown Call No: MEMOIR NF WAM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety. They did not know whether their parents were alive. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in the United States. . . . This book captures the . . . costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory. A . . . story of dislocation [and] survival"--Provided by publisher.
