The Girl Who Smiled Beads
A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
Recommended by Sarah Jessica Parker
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Autobiographies.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would notcould notlive in that tale."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...
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