"Left To Tell" is a beautiful memoir from Immaculee Ilibagiza, a young Tutsi Rwandan woman who survived her country's genocide. The book tells of how Immaculee, along with seven other women, survived by hiding in a cramped, tiny bathroom in a minister's home for 91 days. Terrified, they listened day after day as their Hutu friends and neighbors gathered outside the minsiter's home, calling their names, searching for them to murder them. At times, they even came into the minister's home. The one thing that saved them from being discovered was a large wardrobe that had been moved in front of the tiny bathroom door. The murderers knew they were there, but could't find them and the minister, himself a Hutu, never gave them away.
The fear from her words seemed so real to me, that at times I would have to put the book down. This woman's faith pulled her through when she'd lost everything else. The Hutus murdered her parents, neighbors and only she and a brother who was away at college in another country, survived. This is a beautiful, inspirational, awesome book about a very dark piece of world history regarding "man's inhumanity to man".
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