How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

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.Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head.

She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp.

Remarkably, the rebel didnt pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped.Thus 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.In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, of her hope for the future, and how she found a way to give voice to her people.