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I don’t have the words to do it justice right now but How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra by Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta was such an impactful story. Uwiringiyimana was born in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, survived a war, and then the 2004 massacre in the refugee camp in Gatumba, Burundi where she lost family and friends. Her family manages to get relocated to the USA by the UN after a difficult process and she describes her new life, dealing with trauma, and understanding the social construct of race in America as an immigrant who had never experienced race this way. I know this website typically discusses YA novels and this story is written at a YA level and a chance to learn about the Congo from someone actually from the Congo. Uwiringiyimana Narrates the audiobook herself and I found it deeply moving.
#how dare the sun rise#sandra uwiringiyimana#memoir#non fiction#nonfiction#ya books#congo#burundi#rwanda#bookblr#booklr#congo genocide#anti racism
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I think I’m gonna try to read more memoirs from now on. I’ve been categorizing them in the same ‘category’ as other nonfic, and I try to read 1 nonfic per month, but tbh I really enjoyed hijab butch blues and it was def easier to read than other genres of nonfic
#memoir#bookblr#Next one I plan to read is How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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11.what non-fiction books do you like if any?: oh so many. poetry alone i got a handful but other kinds i liked are - how to blow up a pipeline by andreas malm, the disordered cosmos by chanda prescod-weinstein, braiding sweetgrass by robin kimmerer, how dare the sun rise by sandra uwiringiyimana, sweetness and power by sidney w. mintz, and kinship by john hausdoerffer
12.did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?: off the top of my head i remember liking the giver by lois lowry, the lottery by shirley jackson, their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston, and night by elie wiesel.
19.do you like historical books? which time period?: looking at my storygraph it seems that the majority of the historical fiction i read is around the 1800s to early 1900s, set in the usa. it's not a conscious decision, i don't think.
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“It’s exhausting when you think that you’re not entitled to your emotions.”
-Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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Sandra Uwiringiyimana by Rick Wenner
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Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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Read The First Three Chapters Of How Dare The Sun Rise!
#how dare the sun rise#sandra uwiringiyimana#Sneak peek#refugee story#memoir#book love#bookish#epic reads
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Thinking about Deborah Uwiringiyimana and the beautiful memories she left Sandra Uwiringiyimana who is turning unimaginable pain into aid for others
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May Book Release
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta
Katherine Tegen Books (May 16, 2017)
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.
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Teen Board Member Zoe I. says that HOW DARE THE SUN RISE by Sandra Uwiringiyimana “is a deeply moving and powerful book about strength, resilience and the truth about the American Dream.” http://ow.ly/mA4r30cEtwg
#How Dare the Sun Rise#Memoirs of a War Child#Sandra Uwiringiyimana#memoir#nonfiction#autobiography#young adult#refugee#immigrant#politics#book review#review#teenreads#Teenreads.com
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🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region: Southern Africa
Everfair
Author: Nisi Shawl
381 pages, published 2016
Original language: English
Native author? Author is African-American
Age: Adult
Blurb:
What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? What might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier? Fabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.
Other reps:
Genres: #steampunk #alternate history #sci-fi #colonialism
My thoughts:
Another not-truly-YA book, but it’s a steampunk rewriting of the Congo’s history, how cool is that?
Or for a native Congo author’s voice, try Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s memoir How Dare the Sun Rise.
Review to come.
Link to buy
#congo#drc#democratic republic of the congo#ya world challenge#books#poc authors#steampunk#alternate history#sci-fi#colonialism#africa#everfair#nisi shawl
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List of books from all around the globe
In alphabetical order according to the Polish names of the countries.
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AFRICA
· Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology - Short Story Day Africa
Algeria
· The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris - Leila Marouane
· The Earthquake - Tahar Wattar
· The Star of Algiers - Aziz Chouaki
· The Obstinate Snail - Rachid Boudjedra
· Tomboy - Nina Bouraoui
· The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry - Assia Djebar
· Do You Hear in the Mountains and other stories - Maïssa Bey
· What the Day Owes the Night - Yasmina Khadra
· The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud
Angola
· The Return - Dulce Maria Cardoso
Benin
· Gen - Agnes Agboton
Botswana
· Maru - Bessie Head
Burkina Faso
· Freedom of the City, being a woman in Burkina Faso - Monique Ilboudo
Burundi
· Baho! - Roland Rugero
· Weep Not, Refugee - Marie-Therese Toyi
Chad
· On the Winds of the Hazards of Life - Salma Khalil Alio
Democratic Republic of Congo
· The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
· How Dare the Sun Rise - Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Djibuti
· Les Enfants du Khat - Mouna-Hodan Ahmed
Egypt
· Woman at Point Zero - Nawal el Saadawi
· The Queue - Basma Abdel Aziz
· The Hidden Face of Eve - Nawal el Saadawi
· Blue Aubergine - Miral al-Tahawy
Eritrea
· My Fathers’ Daughter - Hannah Pool
Eswatini
· Weeding the Flowerbeds - Sarah Mkhonza
Ethiopia
· The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste
Gabon
· The Moonlight Tales - Edna Merey-Apinda
The Gambia
· Stories from the Gambia - Sally Sadie Singhateh
Ghana
· Droga do domu - Yaa Gyasi
· Changes: A Love Story - Ama Ata Aidoo
Guinea
· Humiliated Women - Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo
Guinea Bissau
· In Which Language to Write - Odete Semedo
Equatorial Guinea
· La Bastarda - Trifonia Melibea Obono
Cameroon
· Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Kenya
· Dust - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
· Petals of Blood - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Comoros
· Le Journal de Maya - Coralie Frei
Republic of Congo
· The Lights of Pointe-Noire - Alain Mabanckou
· Two Poems - Marie-Leontine Tsibinda
· Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty - Alain Mabanckou
Lesotho
· Singing Away the Hunger - Mpho ‘M’atsepo Nthunya
Liberia
· The House at Sugar Beach - Helene Cooper
Libya
· Melting Sun - Laila Neihoum
· The Slave Yards - Najwa Bin Shatwan
Madagascar
· One Times Two - Cyprienne Toazara
Malawi
· I Still Miss Him - Walije Gondwe
Mali
· Poèmusiques - Fatoumata Keita
Morocco
· The Happy Marriage - Tahar Ben Jelloun
· Whitefly - Abdelilah Hamdouchi
· The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers - Fouad Laroui
· Lullaby - Leila Slimani
· Sex and Lies - Leila Slimani
· The Year of the Elephant - Leila Abouzeid
· The Moor's Account - Laila Lalami
Mauritania
· Poetry and I - Mbarka Mint al-Barra
Mauritius
· Eve Out of Her Ruins - Ananda Devi
Mozambique
· The First Wife - Paulina Chiziane
Namibia
· The Purple Violet of Oshaantu - Neshani Andreas
Niger
· Le Déserteur - Hélène Kaziende
Nigeria
· And After Many Days - Jowhor Ile
· Blackass - A. Igoni Barrett
· The Face: Cartography of the Void - Chris Abani
· Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
· What Is Not Yours In Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi
· Collected Poems - Gabriel Okara
· Born on a Tuesday - Elnathan John
· Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
· Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
· Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
· Stay with Me - Ayobami Adebayo
· The Opposite House - Helen Oyeyemi
· Walking with Shadows - Jude Dibia
· Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta
· The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - Lola Shoneyin
· Foreign Gods, Inc - Okey Ndibe
· Butterfly Fish - Irenosen Okojie
· Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream to the Sun - Sarah Ladipo Manyinka
· Love is Power Or Something Like That - A. Igoni Barrett
· The Mad House - TJ Benson
South Africa
· Rachel’s Blue - Zakes Mda
· Tales of the Metric System - Imraan Coovadia
· The Reactive - Masande Ntshanga
· Soweto Stories - Miriam Tlali
· Disgrace - John Maxwell Coetzee
· London Cape Town Joburg - Zukiswa Wanner
· The Fatuous State of Severity - Phumlani Pikoli
· Azanian Bridges - Nick Wood
· Taty Went West - Nikhil Singh
Cantral African Republic
· The Magic Doll - Adrienne Yabouza
Cabo Verde
· The Madwoman of Serrano - Dina Salustio
Rwanda
· The Barefoot Woman - Scholastique Mukasonga
· Our Lady of the Nile - Scholastique Mukasonga
Senegal
· Kaveena - Boubacar Boris Diop
· Ladivine - Marie NDiaye
· So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
· The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel - Marie Ndiaye
Seychelles
· Labour of Love - Marie Flora Ben David Nourrice
Sierra Leone
· The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
Somalia
· Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
· Adua - Igiaba Scego
Sudan
· The Kindness of Enemies - Leila Aboulela
· Elsewhere Home - Leila Aboulela
South Sudan
· Withered Flowers - Stella Gitano
Tanzania
· Things Were Lost in Our Vaginas - Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
Togo
· Do They Hear You When You Cry - Fauziya Kassindja & Layli Miller Bashir
Tunisia
· Time’s Running Out for Scheherezade - Fawzia Zouari
· The Ardent Swarm - Yamen Manai
Uganda
· 100 Days - Juliane Okot Bitek
· Kintu - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Cote d'Ivoire
· Aya de Yopougon - Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie
Sao Tome and Principe
· Petty Tyrants - Conceição Lima
Zambia
· The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
Zimbabwe
· The Book of Memory - Petina Gappah
· The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician - Tendai Huchu
· Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
· The Hairdresser of Harare - Tendai Huchu
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
· Exquisite Corpse - Agustina Bazterrica
· Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin
· Comemadre - Roque Larraquy
· The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
· The German Room - Carla Maliandi
· The Wind That Lays Waste - Selva Almada
· Feebleminded - Ariana Harwicz
· The Wind that Lays Waste - Selva Almada
· Die, My Love - Ariana Harwicz
· 77 - Guillermo Saccomanno
· Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar
· Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez
Bolivia
· Our Dead World - Liliana Colanzi
Brazil
· The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections - Eliane Brum
· Conectadas - Clara Alves
· Agua Viva - Clarice Lispector
· Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler
· The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
· Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - Jorge Amado
· Nowhere People - Paulo Scott
Chile
· A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
· Space Invaders - Nona Fernandez
· Seeing Red - Lina Meruane
Equador
· Cockfight - Maria Fernanda Ampuero
Guyana
· Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging - Tessa McWatt
Colombia
· Miłość w czasach zarazy - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
· The Bitch - Pilar Quintana
· Fish Soup - Margarita Garcia Robayo
Paraguay
· Our Father is Tired - Susy Delgado
Peru
· The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
· Letters to a Young Novelist - Mario Vargas Llosa
· Sexographies - Gabriela Wiener
Suriname
· The Cost of Sugar - Cynthia McLeod
Uruguay
· Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis
· A Dream Come True - Juan Carlos Onetti
Venezuela
· Southpaw - Lisa St Aubin de Teran
· It Would Be Night in Caracas - Karina Sainz Borgo
NORTH AMERICA
Antigua and Barbuda
· Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Bahamas
· Back to Life - Wendy Coakley Thompson
Barbados
· Redemption in Indigo - Karen Lord
Belize
· Time and River - Zee Edgell
Dominica
· Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Dominicana
· In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
· Tentacle - Rita Indiana
· The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Grenada
· Lady in a Boat - Merle Collins
Guatemala
· Knitting the Fog - Claudia D. Hernandez
Haiti
· Love, Anger, Madness - Marie Vieux-Chauvet
· Kraj bez kapelusza - Dany LaFerrière
· Niedziela, 4 stycznia - Lyonel Trouillot
Honduras
· Nobody Wanted Me - Soledad Castillo
Jamaica
· The True History of Paradise - Margaret Cezair-Thompson
· Amiable with Big Teeth - Claude McKay
· The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Canada
· Small Beauty - jia qing wilson-yang
· Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Costa Rica
· From Where The Voice Is Born - Carmen Naranjo
Cuba
· Revolution Sunday - Wendy Guerra
· Havana Year Zero - Karla Suarez
Mexico
· Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
· Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions - Valeria Luiselii
· The Iliac Crest - Cristina Rivera Garza
· Umami - Laia Jufresa
Nicaragua
· The Country Under My Skin - Gioconda Belli
Panama
· The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
Saint Kitts and Nevis
· As Good as Gold - Kathryn Bertine
Saint Lucia
· History Shelves - Sassy Ross
Saint Vincent and Grenadines
· Journal of a Superfluous Woman - I.R. King
El Salvador
· Luisa in Realityland - Claribel Alegria
US
· Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Y. Davis
Trinidad and Tobago
· Crick Crack Monkey - Merle Hodge
ASIA
Afghanistan
· Raising My Voice - Malalai Joya
· The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
· And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
Saudi Arabia
· Sarab - Raja Alem
· Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea
Armenia
· My Grandmother: A Memoir - Fethiye Cetin
Azerbaijan
· Days in the Caucasus - Banine
Bahrain
· Bahrain’s Uprising - ed. Ala’a Shehabi & Marc Owen Jones
Bangladesh
· I Am Yours - Reema Zaman
Bhutan
· The Circle of Karma - Kunzang Choden
Brunei
· Moments of Nil - Flora Tavu
China
· The Wandering Earth - Liu Cixin
· Madame Mao - Anchee Min
· Vertical Motion - Can Xue
· China Dream - Ma Jian
· Three Sisters - Bi Feiyu
· The Boat to Redemption - Su Tong
· Wolf Totem - Lu Jiamin
· Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China - Jung Chang
· Strange Beasts of China - Yan Ge
· Change - Mo Yan
· Grass Soup - Zhang Xianling
· Not Written Words - Xixi
· Daughter of the River - Hong Ying
· Beyond Exemplar Tales - ed. Joan Judge & Hu Ying
· Three Sisters - Bi Feiyu
· Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
· Beijing Woman - Wang Yuan
Philippines
· The Farm - Joanne Ramos
· When the Elephants Dance - Tess Uriza Holthe
· Ilustrado - Miguel Syjuco
· Eating Fire and Drinking Water - Arlene J. Chai
· State of War - Ninotchka Rosca
· In the Country - Mia Alvar
· Insurrecto - Gina Apostol
· Crying Mountain - Criselda Yabes
· Translating Feminisms - Pa-Liwanag
· Lola’s House - M. Evelina Galang
· Pinay Guerillas - Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas
· Our Founding Mothers: Lest We Forget - Quennie Ann J. Palafox (esej)
· Dead Stars - Paz Marquez Benitez
· Woman with Horns and Other Stories - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Georgia
· The Eight Life - Nino Haratischwili
· One More Year - Sana Krasikov
· Everybody Dies in the Novel - Beqa Adamashvili
India
· The Story of a Goat - Perumal Murugan
· One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan
· Abandon - Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
· The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
· The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
· Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
· Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer - Cyrus Mistry
· Goat Days - Benyamin
· Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag
· Latitudes of Longing - Shubhangi Swarup
· One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan
· A Fistful of Mustard Seeds - F. Santhosh Kumar
Indonesia
· Saman - Ayu Utami
· The Original Dream - Nukila Amal
· The Question of Red - Laksmi Pamuntjak
· Indigenous Species - Khairani Barokka
· Paper Boats - Dee Lestari
· Home - Leila Chudori
· Bound - Okky Madasari
· From Now on Everything Will Be Different - Eliza Vitri Handayani
· Chinese Whispers - Rani Pramesti
Iraq
· The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq - Dunya Mikhail
· The Book of Collateral Damage - Sinan Antoon
Iran
· Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
· The Enlightenment of Greengage Tree - Shokoofeh Azar
· Disoriental - Negar Djavadi
· Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Israel
· Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights Under Siege - Amira Hass
· Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Japonia
· The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
· 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
· Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
· The Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino
· Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
· Out - Natsuo Kirino
· The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
· The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
· Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
· Breast and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
· Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri
· The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
· The Emissary - Yoko Tawada
· Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
· In Praise of Shadows - Jun’ichirou Tanizaki
· Jestem kotem - Soseki Natsume
· Parade - Hiromi Kawakami
· Territory of Light - Yukio Tsushima
· An Echo of Heaven - Kenzaburō Ōe
· Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
· Death in Midsummer and other stories - Yukio Mishima
· The Diving Pool: Three Novellas - Yoko Ogawa
· Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
· Seven Japanese Tales - Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
· Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
· The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
· The Waiting Years - Fumiko Enchi
· Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
· Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
· Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
· The Aosawa Murders - Riku Onda
· In the Miso Soup - Ryo Murakami
· There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job - Kikuko Tsumura
· Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Tales from the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
· Penance - Kanae Minato
· Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
· Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hirami Kawakami
· Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
· Kot, który spadł z nieba - Takashi Hiraide
· The Inugami Curse - Seishi Yokomizo
· The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada
· Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Yoko Tawada
· Woman on the Other Shore - Mitsuyo Kakuta
· The Waiting Years - Fumiko Enchi
· Inheritance from Mother - Minae Mizumura
· A Thousand Strands of Black Hair - Seiko Tanabe
· Scream from the Shadows - Setsu Shigematsu
· Black Box - Shiori Ito
Yemen
· Our Women on the Ground - ed. Zahra Hankir
Jordan
· Willow Trees Don’t Weep - Fadia Faquir
Cambodia
· Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna
· First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung
· When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge - Chanrithy Him
Qatar
· Fiery Curses - Noura Mohammad Faraj
Kazachstan
· The School - Zaure Batayeva
Kyrgizstan
· An Orange Lemon - Alla Pyatibratova
South Korea
· The Vegetarian - Han Kang
· The Court Dancer - Shin Kyung-Sook
· Ptak - Jeonghui Oh
· Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo
· Our Twisted Hero - Yi Munyol
· The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Hwang Sun-mi
· The Old Garden - Hwang Sok-yong
· Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood - Richard E. Kim
· I Have the Right to Destroy Myself - Kim Young-ha
· Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
· Please Look After Mom - Shin Kyung-sook
· Untold Night and Day - Bae Suah
· Who Ate Up All the Shinga? - Park Wan-Suh
· Unexpected Vanilla - Lee Hyemi
· Five Preludes & A Fugue - Cheon Heerahn
· The Future of Silence. Fiction by Korean Women
· One Left - Kim Soom
· Mannequin - Ch’oe Yun
· Mina - Kim Sagwa
· Shoko’s Smile - Choi Eunyoung
· Practicing Feminism in South Korea - Kyungja Jung
North Korea
· The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
· Friend - Paek Nam-nyong
· Rewriting Revolution - Immanuel Kim
· Stars Between the Sun and Moon - Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland
· The Accusation - Bandi
· In Order to Live - Yeonmi Park & MaryAnne Vollers
Kuwait
· The Ringing Body - Fatima Yousef al-Ali
Laos
· How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa
· Mother’s Beloved: Stories from Laos - Outhine Bounyavong
Lebanon
· Ports of Call - Amin Maalouf
· Always Coca-Cola - Alexandra Chreiteh
· I Remember Beirut - Zeina Abirached
Maldives
· Perfume - Aminath Neena
Malaysia
· The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
· The Rice Mother - Rani Manicka
· Interlok - Abdullah Hussain
· The Kampung Boy - Lat
· Lake Like a Mirror - Sok Fong Ho
· The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
· Evening is the Whole Day - Preeta Samarasan
· Though I Get Home - Yz Chin
· Once We Were There - Bernice Chauly
· Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia - Cecilia Ng, Maznah Mohamad, Tan Beng Hui
· The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds - Selina Siakchin Yoke
· Bedtime Stories from the Dead of Night - Julya Oui
· The Professor - Faisal Tehrani
· Iban Dream - Golda Mowe
· Unveiling Choice - Maryam Lee
Myanmar
· Smile as They Bow - Nu Nu Yi
Mongolia
· The Green Eyed Lama - Oyungerel Tsedevdamba & Jeffrey L. Falt
· Elberel - ed. Jantsangiyn Bat-Ireedui & Kazuyuki Okada
· Bitter Tears on New Year’s Eve - D. Natsagdorj
Nepal
· Night - Sulochana Manandhar
· Palpasa Cafe - Narayan Wagle
Oman
· Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
· The Turtle of Oman - Naomi Shihab Nye
Pakistan
· Cracking India - Bapsi Sidhwa
Palestine
· Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
· The Sea Cloak - Nayrouz Qarmout
· In the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish
Russia
· The Crime and Punishment- Fiodor Dostojewski
· Przyszło nam tu żyć. Reportaże z Rosji - Jelena Kostiuczenko
· Aetherial Worlds - Tatyana Tolstaya
· Bride and Groom - Alisa Ganieva
· Stalingrad - Vasily Grossman
· One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
· Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Singapore
· Ponti - Sharlene Teo
· How We Disappeared - Jing-Jing Lee
Sri Lanka
· A Disobedient Girl - Ru Freeman
Syria
· Death is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa
· Farewell, Damascus - Ghada Samman
Tajikistan
· The City Where Dreams Come True - Gulsifat Shahidi
Thailand
· Bright - Duanwad Pimwana
Taiwan
· Wedding in Autumn And Other Stories - Shih Chiung-Yu
· Stories of the Sahara - Sanmao
· Mulberry and Peach - Hualing Nieh
· A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers - Tsering Woeser
· Last Words from Montmarte - Qiu Miaojin
· The Great Flowing River - Chi Pang-Yuan
· Salsa - Hsia Yu
· Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers - ed. Jonathan Stalling et al.
· The Membranes - Chi Ta-Wei
Timor Leste
· From Timor Leste to Australia - ed. Jan Trezise
Turkey
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· Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter - Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
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A/N: Any mistakes or indescrepancies made in regards to any content relating to the DRC is my own. I did my own research on the DRC and the ICC that was put in place for the DRC war crimes. I also read a chunk of Sandra Uwiringiyimana's book How Dare the Sun Rise, which is her personal memoir of being a war child in a Burundi refugee camp in DRC in 2004. The photos of Alex/Stephanie March are from her IG, not in the Congo but in other areas of Africa which were as close as I could get.
For those of you who have stayed with this story all the way, please know it means a lot to me. ❤️ I started this fic on a whim, never thinking that it would become the longest, most-viewed story on my A03.
Spoilers: Witness, Shattered
Trigger/content warnings: alcohol, references to timeline-relevant wartime events of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, blood and references to child death
Evocations: XXII
Alex's office had gone through several incarnations over her years of comings and goings. It was no longer the dim, quiet room full of books and mahogany that Olivia pushed her way into for their first kiss.
Although, her heart was pounding much the same as that day long ago, as she stood once again at the door.
Liv didn't knock this time, however; she simply turned the knob and let the soft click of the door announce her into the room. Alexandra was midsea among chaos - stacks of files and books, some already in boxes, were everywhere. As Olivia took it all in, Alex finished flipping through the file in her hands and binned it into a garbage can behind the desk.
"Alex," Liv said seriously, "what are you doing?"
"Packing," the blonde replied simply, side-stepping the other, layered questions in the phrase.
"You can't be serious about this."
"I'm dead serious," Alex assured her, picking up another file.
"Well, the dead part is right!" Liv snapped, "You're going to get yourself killed!"
"If you recall, I happen to already have some experience in managing not to get killed," Alex pointed out. Her tone was maddeningly casual and Olivia's exasperation was obvious.
"Goddammit, Alexandra! The Congo is not Wisconsin! You won't have the protections there that you had here - you're going to stick out like a sore, tall, blonde thumb with a target on your back for going after powerful men!"
Alex sighed and put down the file, accepting that Liv wasn't going to be sent away quietly. "I thought going after powerful men - after powerful, criminal men - is what we do here?"
"It's not the same thing and you know it," Liv put her hands on her hips and paced a tight circle. "You're talking about a civilly volatile place that has larger things to worry about than catching a handful of bad men."
Crossing her arms over her chest, Alex settled her gaze on Olivia. "Liv. My life has been chaos and secrets, and a knotted string of temporary circumstances now for seven years. I need more - I need to make a decision like this, to go find something to re-center myself finally!
"Nardali showed me that the world outside mainstream America is still fighting for something larger. I want to be part of something that means more than putting small-time misogynists away week after week!"
Olivia fought to hide the hurt in her gaze. Hardly two weeks previous, they had been locked in sex that was akin to a death struggle, permanently claiming one another. Liv would never understand how their relationship could never again be the something that meant more.
"So what is it that you think I've been doing here the last dozen years?" she asked, "Biding my time?!"
Alexandra took a deep breath and came around her desk. "I told you when I came back, Liv - everything is temporary. Even the Congo is temporary: the ICC is managed out of The Hague, so ultimately I'll end up in the Netherlands."
Liv shot her a sardonic look. "You don't have to pretend you care when you already have one foot out the door."
Offended, the blonde took a step closer. "Look at me," she demanded. They locked eyes, and Olivia's filled with tears. "I love you."
"How could we have gotten this so wrong?" Liv said weakly.
"I have to go get more boxes," Alex replied, stepping past Olivia to the door.
When she returns shortly after, Liv is gone.
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She marvels at how the sun here is like nowhere else on Earth. Since she first arrived in Africa, It's as though her pores are always open, leaving the parts of her skin not burned by the sun sheened constantly with a fine layer of sweat.
The sound of crickets chirping is unending along the edge of the lush greenery on one side of the dusty path she walks. Beneath her thin canvas shoes, even the clay ground is warm. At the end of the road, the jungle parts abruptly to reveal a calm, secluded area of shore before the mighty Congo River.
Alexandra shades her eyes as she looks into the sunset, clutching the notepad and pen that she has with her tighter. Her hair, lightened by so much sun, is pulled into a haphazard ponytail off her neck where she has tied a blue bandana. She continues all the way down to the shore, where she takes a seat and puts pen to paper to get out her thoughts before the sun goes all the way down.
7 April 2010
Dear Liv,
Never did I dream of places as beautiful and tragic as this jewel of Africa. The joy that somehow thrives among chaos is unbelievable and inspiring. It is a marriage of the best and worst of humanity all at once.
My pores seem permanently open; the heat is a constant, humid, cloying presence. You learn immediately what things the Western world takes for granted.
I have been introduced to more people than I can keep track of, and they ask me the oddest questions - about New York, about popular music and movies. You can almost forget for a minute where you are . . .
then you see a child feeding a banana to a monkey, or a jeep full of soldiers with rifles poised, and it's the end of the illusion.
So far my favorite thing to do is to sit by the river at sundown, when the temperature cools. It's meditative; it feels like preparation for the fight we'll have in The Netherlands. . . .
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The first letter arrives in early July. It is marked Business Mail, and covered in stamps and official waybills from several customs stops. It comes, of course, to the precinct rather than her apartment - Olivia finds it on her desk as she arrives one morning with her coffee, a donut in her mouth partially bitten. She tucks it among the other stacks of paper on her desk and forces herself to ignore it until the end of the day. Then the next day, for good measure.
When she finally takes it home, she tosses it on the coffee table. She prepares supper, refusing to even look at it, as if the universe would know and call it weakness. After supper, Liv opens a bottle of wine and pours herself a glass, sitting with the envelope neatly in front of her, as if it contains divorce papers, or the Will to an estate rather than correspondence. Curiously, she runs a fingertip over the writing on the front, touches the international stamp, unsure what she expects them to make her feel.
Liv imagines Alex, in an unfamiliar land full of forest, of war, of wild animals crashing through the bush and dusty roads that lead to who-knows-where. She pictures her tanned, smiling, in white linen and filled with a hunger for justice.
She flips over the envelope and inserts her finger along the seam, tearing it open.
. . . I feel as though maybe I'm finding myself again, this time - here, in this place. Maybe what I needed was a mission, larger than myself, or you or even New York. Only time will tell.
Don't worry about me. Take care of yourself.
Love, Alex.
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Olivia's head spins, with the acrid smell of Melinda's blood still drying on her hands, with the sound of Sophie still singing to Nicholas in French, with Jo's confession that was heard clearly outside the morgue while still trying to talk Sophie down.
The door finally opens so that Elliot can nod the all-clear to the officers in the hallway, and Jo comes staggering out behind, shell-shocked. Olivia is the only one rushing into the room, now.
Elliot turns and follows her, concerned and curious. She passes Sophie, holding the dead body of her son, without a word or glance.
"Bonne nuit cher enfant. Dans tes langes blanches repose-toi, joyeux, en rêvant des cieux . . ."
A large sink sputters on across the room and Liv is scrubbing angrily at her hands and wrists. El makes his way to her slowly, as if she is as volatile as the Gerards, who played a dangerous game and would be paying for it for a lifetime.
"Liv," he says quietly. She ignores him, the soap and her skin both turning pink in her fervor. He reaches out carefully and slips his hands around her wrists. "Liv. Stop."
She does, but still says nothing. Elliot pushes the soap from her her fingers, letting it clatter into the sink. "Here," he says, unbuttoning her cuffs and jacket sleeves so he can roll them away from her wrists. He adjusts the water temperature as if she were one of his many children, throwing a tantrum at bath time.
Methodically, he rinses the soap lather away, looking to make sure that he gets the blood that has clung to cuticles and the lines of knuckles. He holds her wrists under the hot water, letting the heat soothe her. "You're okay," he says softly.
Nothing has felt okay for a long time for Olivia, and the words cause her eyes to brim with tears. Months of checking the news in the Congo every morning has ground her down with anxiety, waiting to hear from Alexandra. Then the appearance of Marlowe, and the blonde's cryptic inferences with Elliot, which had put a new kink in what little peace Liv had left.
She meets his gaze and shakes her head, her lips pressed into a terse line as Sophie begins Brahms' Lullaby over again:
"Une berceuse et une bonne nuit. Dans le ciel, les étoiles sont lumineuses . . ."
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12 August 2010
Dear Liv,
I have been granted several opportunities to speak at a few girls' schools in the area. There has been work on developing a program to educate girls and women about consent in sex, rape, birth control, and protecting themselves. This, in conjunction with giving them the hope that reporting sexual assaults can result in justice, has made a visible difference among the women.
No word yet on when we'll be relocating to The Hague, but I imagine it will be the beginning of the new year. January in The Netherlands will be a shock to the system after all this heat!
More and more displaced persons shift around the area all the time, in response to various conflicts. Sometimes they move with soldiers, other times alone seeking somewhere to wait out the newest upheaval. Just a few days ago, a camp was attacked and fire-bombed in the night at the edge of the village where I've been staying.
Perhaps any mission larger than one's own happiness is a war that never ends with the forces outside ourselves. This violence is so much darker than I could have imagined. I still smell the scent of smoke, burnt canvas and flesh when I lay down to sleep. ...
TBC
#law and order svu#svu#olivia benson#alex cabot#alexandra cabot#cabenson#evocations#elliot stabler#brahms lullaby#democratic republic of the congo#dr congo#tw: war#tw: blood#africa#my writing#hearteyes4mariska#fic series#multi ship
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A “gut-wrenching, poetic memoir.” How Dare the Sun Rise reviewed in The New York Times. Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta.
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