@article{856863,
      recid = {856863},
      author = {Wamariya, Clemantine, and Weil, Elizabeth,},
      title = {The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes  after /},
      pages = {274 pages :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/856863},
}