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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, read by Robin Miles.
A riveting tale of dislocation, survival and the power of stories to break or save us.
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her 15-year-old sister, Clare, 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.
When Clemantine was 12, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States, where she embarked on another journey, 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 100 years old.
In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of ‘victim’ and recognise the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful and bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms.
Critic Reviews
"Extraordinary and heartrending. Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous." (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-08-2019
Interesting read.
Beautifully read. I found the story itself a little hard to follow at times but it was true to a young persons perspective I guess.
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- ashlea
- 05-06-2018
I couldn’t handle the narrator
I have read excerpts of this book and the storyline is so gripping however the narrator they have chosen left me not able to get past the first chapter. She pauses between words in a sentence and sounds as if she doesn’t know the words coming which is so frustrating to listen to.
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