The Girl who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

Because the last Sunday of March is Easter Sunday, I have moved our meet-up to the following Sunday.

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, 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. 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. This memoir is “a story of war and what comes after”.

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