Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga with Jordan Stump (Translator)

250 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ...

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Moods

sad 88%
emotional 79%
dark 72%
challenging 59%
reflective 59%
informative 46%
tense 31%
inspiring 3%
adventurous 1%
hopeful 1%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

medium 55%
slow 22%
fast 22%

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