How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child Audiobook (Free)

Junior Library Guild Selection * NY Community Library’s Best Books for Teenagers * Goodreads Choice Awards non-fiction Finalist * Chicago General public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teenagers: Nonfiction * 2018 Tx Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA’s 2018 Quick Picks List * Lender Street’s 2018 Best Books of the entire year

“This gut-wrenching, poetic memoir reminds us that zero life story could be reduced to the term ‘refugee.” -New York Occasions Book Review

“A critical piece of literature, contributing to the about how exactly Dare sunlight Rise: Memoirs of the War Child bigger refugee narrative in a manner that is complex and nuanced.” -College Library Journal (starred review)

This profoundly moving memoir may be the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a woman through the Democratic Republic from 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 a decade old when she found herself having a weapon pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mom and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the cause, and Sandra escaped.

Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no house and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a US refugee plan, they shifted to America, only to face yet another cultural disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an sea, but there is now a much wider divide she had to conquer. And it started with middle college in NY.

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