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    "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.\n\nSandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night\u2014wielding 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 weren\u2019t from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for looking different.\n\n\u201cGoodbye, life,\u201d she said to the man ready to shoot her.\n\nRemarkably, the rebel didn\u2019t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped into the night.\n\nThus 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.\n\nIn 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.",
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