Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 Read Widely: Travel & Stories on Multiple Continents
Moving Memoirs
Non Fiction That Reads Like Fiction
More Lists...
Moving Memoirs
Non Fiction That Reads Like Fiction
More Lists...
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for refugees everywhere One night when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in Congo, was very young, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu man, came to their home with a machete in his hand and warned the family they were to be killed within hours. Dogon's family fled into the bush, where they began...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request