Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse has narrated the Rwandan Civil War and its repercussions through the eyes of one family in the novel All Your Children, Scattered.
In the novel, Blanche travels from France to her hometown of Butare in southern Rwanda for the first time in years. There she meets her mother, Immaculata, and stepbrother Bosco whom she hasn’t seen since leaving the country during the October 1, 1990, to July 18, 1994, civil war.
