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Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–The patient encouragement of the author to help her adopted daughter, Jeanne d'Arc Umubyeyi, come to terms with her memories provides the frame for this account of genocide in Rwanda in 1994. When Jeanne was eight, Hutu neighbors massacred her family and destroyed... read more

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Jeanne was sitting in the small tin bathtub, which had been brought outside into the inner courtyard in the afternoon so that the sun could warm the water.

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  1. Hanna Jansen (Author)
 

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