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THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS: An astonishing memoir about survival, memory and healing. 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 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.
Raw, urgent, and bracingly original, The Girl Who Smiled Beads captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever destroyed; what can be repaired; the fragility of memory; the disorientation that comes of other people seeing you only as broken--thinking you need, and want, to be saved. But it is about more than the brutality of war. It is about owning your experiences, about the life we create: intricately detailed, painful, beautiful, a work in progress. |
Back in stock-THE BELLY OF THE ATLANTIC by Fatou Diome. “This charming, vivid and poetic book captures the poignancy of immigrant life and all the unresolved pain of Africa's relationship with its former colonial powers.”—Michela Wrong
Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother Madické counts on her to get him to France, the promised land where foreign footballers become world famous. The story of Salie and Madické highlights the painful situation of those who emigrate. It is a moving account of one of the great tragedies of our time. This is a richly human story. Salie's grandmother and her teacher are warm and engaging characters who give a young girl the chance to create, to write and to make a life for herself. The difficult love between exiled sister and frustrated brother is ultimately resolved in a way that also conveys some of the unexpected benefits of the links between two conflicted worlds. |
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Study Abroad
If you don't have your Bac, contact Chez Alpha Books to learn more about high school completion options in the U.S. Finish high school and start college at the same time. For more info contact chezalphabks@yahoo.com
For more information on study abroad options visit http://www.chezalphabks.com/education.html
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Wonderful New Reads
One great book deserves two others. KINTU, EVERFAIR and CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE all together Chez AlphaBooks
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