num_pages: 304
description: In this powerful memoir Sandra Uwiringyimana a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo tells the incredible true story of how she survived a massacre immigrated to America and overcame her trauma through art and activism.Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at nightwielding weapons torches machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who werent from the same community the same tribe. In other words they were killing people simply for looking different.Goodbye life she said to the man ready to shoot her. Remarkably the rebel didnt pull the trigger and Sandra escaped into the night. 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 profoundly moving memoir Sandra tells the story of her survival of finding her place in a new country and of her hope for the future.
language: English
title: How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books