Clemantine, Claire, and Pudi’s father is a big man with a broad smile. In Kigali, Rwanda, he started his own car service that grew into a large commercial car rental business. He works a lot, and Clemantine only sees him at night when she brings him his slippers and he lets her have a sip of his beer. After Clemantine and Claire are separated from him during the Rwandan Genocide, they don’t see him again until he appears on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Then, Claire flies back to Rwanda and brings her parents to the United States.
Clemantine’s Father Quotes in The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The The Girl Who Smiled Beads quotes below are all either spoken by Clemantine’s Father or refer to Clemantine’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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It felt surreal and awful. I’d lost track of who I was and who we were to each other. None of us were the same people who’d lived together in that house in Kigali. Those people had died. We had all died.
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Clemantine’s Father Quotes in The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The The Girl Who Smiled Beads quotes below are all either spoken by Clemantine’s Father or refer to Clemantine’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8
Quotes
It felt surreal and awful. I’d lost track of who I was and who we were to each other. None of us were the same people who’d lived together in that house in Kigali. Those people had died. We had all died.
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