Naomi Benaron at The Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store
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Naomi Benaron
Running The Rift: A Novel
@ Harvard Book Store | 1256 Mass Ave
Monday, February 6 @ 7:00pm
This event is free. No tickets are necessary.
http://www.harvard.com/event/naomi_benaron/
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome fiction writer NAOMI BENARON for a reading of her debut novel,
Running the Rift. Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence.