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Bibliographic Information
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
First edition.
- Author
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Wamariya, Clemantine.
- Publisher:
- Crown,
- Pub date:
- [2018]
- Pages:
- 274 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780451495327
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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967.57104 WAM
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
First edition.
Wamariya, Clemantine.
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
First edition.
Wamariya, Clemantine.
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Personal Author:
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Wamariya, Clemantine.
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Title:
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after / Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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274 pages : map ; 22 cm
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Summary:
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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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Personal subject:
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Wamariya, Clemantine.
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Personal subject:
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Wamariya, Clemantine.
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Subject term:
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Massacre survivors--Rwanda--Biography.
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Refugees--Rwanda--Biography.
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Subject term:
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Unaccompanied refugee children--Biography.
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Refugees--United States--Biography.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Subject term:
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Refugees--Biography.
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Subject term:
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Refugees--Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Geographic term:
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United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Geographic term:
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Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Personal narratives.
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Geographic term:
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Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Refugees.
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Added Entry-Personal Name:
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Weil, Elizabeth, 1969-
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Electronic access:
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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1001307330
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Electronic access:
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Electronic access:
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0451495322&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=30e3a79935fe3b282e359176069ec7a98d9515cc335ad4c784c14d9bec11676b&ectype=MOREINFO