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Generally I'm not interested in feel-good books with homespun wisdom, but I gave this one a pass because it was set in Rwanda and helped concretize that country's troubled past for me. The characters' stories read like a list of Africa's woes - genocide, broken families, trauma, hunger, AIDS, malaria, rape, female mutilation - and I would not have gotten through them all without the author's light touch and hopeful presentation. In the end it was an oddly uplifting book.
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