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A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines
St. Martin's Press
April 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0312209592
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in
Washington when she learns that most of her family back home
has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the
state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of
it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same
state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into
butchering nearly a million of their neighbors.
Years earlier, her brother Lando wrote her a letter she
never got until now. Urged on by it, she rummages into their
farm childhood, and into family corners alternately dark,
loving, and humorous. She searches for stray mementos of the
lost, then for their roots. What she finds is that and
more---hints, roots, of the 1994 crime that killed her
family. Her narrative takes the reader on a journey from the
days the world and Rwanda discovered each other back to
colonial period when pseudoscientific ideas about race put
the nation on a highway bound for the 1994 genocide.
Seven years of full-time collaboration by two writers---and
the faith of family and friends---went into this emotionally
charged work. Rwanda Means the Universe is at once a
celebration of the lives of the lost and homage to their
past, but it�s no comfortable tribute. It�s an expression of
dogged hope in the face of modern evil.
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