Gaël Faye — Jacaranda — at Conn Ave

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A young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his family's past in this bestselling, prize winning novel from internationally renowned Rwandan French novelist and hip hop artist Gaël Faye. Milan—the twelve year old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother—blames flunking his exams on the emotional toll of the genocide in his mother's homeland. In truth, his mother never talks about Rwanda; the violence is an abstraction that only reaches their French suburb through television broadcasts. That is, until Milan meets Claude, a small boy with a bandaged head whom Milan's mother introduces as a cousin who has come to France seeking medical treatment. Milan embraces him as the brother he's always wanted—until, one day, Claude is sent back to Rwanda…

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