Cockroaches
by: Scholastique Mukasonga (Author), Jordan Stump (Translator

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, advanced reading copy, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 165 pages. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is a compelling chronicle of the author's childhood in the years leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In a spare and penetrating tone, Mukasonga brings to life the scenes of her family's forced displacement from Rwanda to neighboring Burundi. With a view made lucid through time and pain, Mukasonga erodes the distance between her present and her past, resurrecting and paying homage to her family members who were massacred in the genocide, but also, in movingly simple language, the beauty present in quiet, daily moments with her loved ones. Clean copy.