In her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, (read the excerpt from Vogue’s April issue here) Clemantine Wamariya, with coauthor Elizabeth Weil, describes a childhood brutally disrupted by the Rwandan genocide in 1994. At age 6, she fled on foot with her sister Claire, nine years her senior, into Burundi. The pair moved through southern Africa, staying in refugee camps or scratching out a living, before being granted asylum in the United States in 2000. Painted in vivid scenes and flashbacks, the