TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wamariya,Clemantine
AU  - Weil,Elizabeth
TI  - The girl who smiled beads
SN  - 9781786331465 (hbk.) :
AV  - DT450.443 
U1  - 920 WAM 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Hutchinson
KW  - Wamariya, Clemantine.
KW  - Women refugees
KW  - Rwanda
KW  - Biography
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Rwandans
KW  - United States
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1994
N1  - Originally published: United States: Random House
N2  - Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours 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 wandering 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 asylum in the United States, where she embarked on another journey - to excavate her past and, after years of being made to feel less than human, claim her individuality
ER  -