Please join Ben McNally Books and Doubleday Canada for a special celebration of the publication of The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya.

Clemantine will be joined in conversation with Kathleen Newman-Bremang.

Light refreshments will be served

When:

Friday May 4, 2018

6-8pm

Where:

Ben McNally Books

366 Bay Street (South of Richmond)

Price:

Tickets are $40, which includes a copy of the book.

Please reserve your spot, here

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.

Clemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate. Born in Kigali, Rwanda, displaced by conflict, Clemantine migrated throughout seven African countries as a child. At age twelve, she was granted refugee status in the United States and went on to receive a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She lives in San Francisco.

Kathleen Newman-Bremang is a Television Producer and Freelance writer. Her work has appeared in publications including Elle Canada and TheKit. For the last five years she has been working as a segment producer for CTV’s The Social. Kathleen lives in Toronto.