Running the Rift
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Average rating4.7
Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics, but Jean is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. But when the president's sudden assassination plummets the country into chaos - Jean has to run, run from everyone and everything he knew, to survive. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda and the tragedy of its recent past, this is a novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost and of loves salvaged.
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This is a beautiful and heart-wrenching book. Naomi Benaron helps readers see the Rwandan genocide as it unfolded through the perspective of a boy coming of age in the thick of it. Jean Patrick Nkuba just wants to run, and running is what tethers him to this life. I was absorbed in Jean Patrick's story and that of his friends and family, all the more so as the novel built to the horrific events I knew were coming. And despite the evil perpetrated in real life and in this book, there is still hope portrayed.
