Running the Rift

[Kenneth]

The thread to post your thoughts and comments on our most recent read, a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Rwandan Genocide.

[Lucy]

I'm about 1/3 thru, dreading with every page the inevitable slaughter. The descriptions of the Rwandan landscape and wildlife (and even of Jean-Patrick's family's cattle) are so evocative (and yet matter of fact, as if we all have colobus monkeys in the vegetation overhead!) - the author obviously knows & loves the country. I'm struck again (as after seeing "Hotel Rwanda")at how [willfully?] ignorant we were when this was all happening in the '90s.