<p>Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse joins Isa's Book Club to talk about her memoir, documenting her terrifying escape from Rwanda in the 1990s. </p>
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: This book was 'a way to reappropriate the history.'

Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse pieces together records and personal accounts in her new memoir 'The Convoy' documenting her escape from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 at the age of fifteen.

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<p>Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse joins Isa's Book Club to talk about her memoir, documenting her terrifying escape from Rwanda in the 1990s. </p>
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: This book was 'a way to reappropriate the history.'
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