Igifu - Scholastique Mukasonga

Read Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, a collection of what the blurb describes as "autobiographical stories"; although each of the five short stories seem to be narrated by different people, there are echoes in each of the Wikipedia facts of Mukasonga's life— the characters are all Tutsi and have been displaced within Rwanda or sought refuge in other countries; in "The Curse of Beauty," the narrator, like Mukasonga, attended an elite girls' high school before being forced to leave and barely escaping with her life; in "Grief" (the one story written in the third person, rather than first person) the narrator, like Mukasonga, returns to Rwanda to grieve her family, killed in the 1994 genocide while she was living in a different country. I've officially exhausted my library's stock of Mukasonga's works, but I'm glad I saved this one for last, because it was the best of the four, imo.