A Story for the Broken

San Francisco Magazine Chris Colin Julia Zave As a child, Clemantine Wamariya survived the Rwandan genocide. Now, in a new memoir, she tries to mend the rest of us. The year was 1994, and Clemantine Wamariya lived in a stucco ranch house in a nice neighborhood in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Clemantine was a precocious kid, forever inventing fairy worlds and clambering in her family’s mango tree. They called her Cassette, because she repeated everything. She was five years old. Images and Ca...