October 2025 Review The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya with Elizabeth Weil Reviewer: Morgan Fuller Morgan led us through Clemantine Wamariya’s nonlinear memoir: chapters move between Rwanda, 1994 (Clemantine is six as violence reaches Kigali) and her life in the United States from 2000 (arriving at twelve after six years moving across seven African countries and multiple refugee camps with her older sister, Claire). What stayed with us Survival ...