All Your Children, Scattered

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"Timeless, vivid and utterly essential." Fergal Keane, author of The Madness AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY THE TUTSI GENOCIDE "Three generations of a family torn apart by the Tutsi genocide try to reconnect with their homeland and each other." THE NEW YORK TIMES "Powerful." ASYMPTOTE JOURNAL Blanche returns to Rwanda after building a life in Bordeaux with her husband and young son, Stokely. Reuniting with her mother Immaculata, old wounds are reopened for both mother and daughter while Stokely, caught between two countries, tries to understand where he comes from and where he belongs. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's unforgettable debut novel follows three generations torn apart by the genocide against the Tutsis, as they try to reconnect with one another, rebuild broken links and find their place in today's world.

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare, Rwanda in 1979. Surviving the genocide against the Tutsis, she moved to France in 1994 to study political science and work for humanitarian causes. She is now an acclaimed novelist and poet. Alison Anderson is a literary translator and author of three novels, Hidden Latitudes, Darwin's Wink and The Summer Guest. She has translated over thirty novels from French, including Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog and the works by Nobel laureate JMG Le Clezio.

'"Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a writer of immense gifts and her novel has moved me to my core. Read it and meet and purveyor of human truths that are timeless, vivid and utterly essential."' - Fergal Keane, author of The Madness '"Precise and poetic; profound and profoundly human, All Your Children, Scattered plumbs the depths of history's silences, and of its victims."' - Jakuta Alikavazovich, author of Night as it Falls '"This story tells all our stories."' - Gael Faye, author of Small Country '"Three generations of a family torn apart by the Tutsi genocide try to reconnect with their homeland and each other."' - The New York Times '"This first novel has the feel of a breakthrough, a transcendence."' - The Brooklyn Rail