Immaculée shares her miraculous story of how she survived during the Rwanda genocide in 1994 when she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor’s house for 91 days! In this captivating and inspiring book, Immaculée shows us how to embrace the power of prayer, forge a profound and lasting relationship with God, and discover the importance of forgiveness and the meaning of truly unconditional love and understanding—through our darkest hours.

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I am not an avid reader.. if it was not an assignment in college, I might not have read it. This book I cannot seem to put down! I actually make time to read it . It is a powerful and sad story of genocide in Rawanda not long ago..This book is changing my life spritually.. pick up the book ! you can even get it at the local library.

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I tell you, I really loved it; but I wanted to weep for those folks; I wanted to weep for the governments that turned their virtual backs on Rwanda, and to those who have died. It takes an amazing woman to tell her story; but it takes extraordinary courage to write her story to the world; Thanks Stephanie for the book; I am touched by it;

Well, I won’t lie to you, it takes a heck of a person to forgive those who have hurt you; for this lady to it, well I am still reading the book;(Thanks Stephanie!!!) but I tell you, once you read this book, you won’t forget it; More to report later.

The author tells the story (process) of how she learned to forgive her former friends and neighbors who hunted her and murdered her family during the holocust in Rwanda in 1994.(No one was spared not even her eight month old cousin.)

I’m more than a little curious how she learned to let go of that hatred. That’s the focus of the book. The process of working through those feeling while she hid in a small secret bathroom with 6 other women for 91 days. From what I hear when she came out she was 5’9’ weighed 65lbs and held no resentment toward the people who wanted to kill her simply because of her ethnicity. In many ways the story reminds me of The Diary of Ann Frank, except this book is more intense. She doesn’t seem to hold much back when she describes the emotions and spiritual transformation she through in that bathroom. This is not a touchy, feely, love will set you free book. She is brutally honest about each stage of grief, fear and rage that she went through. They were killing babies, children anyone who belong to the Tutsi tribe.

She now lives on Long Island, NY, works for the UN and gives talks around the country. A few survivors from the WWII holocust have come up to her after her talks and told her she’s helped them. A 90 year old woman said she helped her let go of the hatred she’d been holding on to and that now she felt free to be happy.

I don’t know how she could learn to forgive something like that but I’m looking foward to reading how.