How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best Books of the Year

This gut-wrenching, poetic memoir reminds us that no life story can be reduced to the word 'refugee.' --New York Times Book Review

A critical piece of literature, contributing to the larger refugee narrative in a way that is complex and nuanced. --School Library Journal (starred review)

This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism.

Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped.

Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York.

In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, of her hope for the future, and how she found a way to give voice to her people.

Pesta, Abigail: - Abigail Pesta is an award-winning journalist and author who has lived and worked around the world, including New York, London, and Hong Kong. She is the coauthor of How Dare the Sun Rise, a memoir of a young woman's phenomenal escape from a childhood massacre in Africa and her journey to a new life in America. Her investigative and feature reporting has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, NBC News, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Glamour, Newsweek, and The Daily Beast. Her investigative report on the honor killing of a young woman in Arizona was adapted into an episode of 48 Hours on CBS News, as well as an episode of Forbidden on Investigation Discovery, featuring interviews with Abby discussing her findings.

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ISBN 13	9780062470157
ISBN 10	0062470159
Title	How Dare the Sun Rise
Author	Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2018-05-15
Number of pages	304
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