The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Human rights advocate and public speaker Clemantine Wamariya was an inquisitive child who loved playing with her older brother and pestering her older sister Claire. Then one day, her life changed forever. She and Claire fled as war, murder, betrayal and madness exploded around them.

Writing with award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist Elizabeth Weil, Wamariya tells of her struggles to survive the Rwandan genocide. She offers a deeply personal memoir about human nature amid the pressures of war, poverty and homelessness.