Running the Rift
By Naomi Benaron
Algonquin Books, 384 pp.
Running the Rift
By Naomi Benaron
Algonquin Books, 384 pp.
Would-be Olympic runner Jean Patrick Nkuba is a talented young man – but he’s a Tutsi living in Hutu-governed Rwanda. This debut novel set against the backdrop of Rwanda’s ethnic conflict is a powerful coming-of-age story that highlights the best and the worst of human nature. (January)
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