Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza is an amazing book that incorporates the power of God through humble sincere prayer, pure luck, and the struggle to stay alive during a genocide. It takes place in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994 when radical Hutu’s decided that it was time for “pay back” to the Tutsi for a mass killing that the Tutsi did many years earlier. The author of the book tells the story through her perspective as the victim of this terrible crime to humanity. She, as a member of the Tutsi tribe, is targeted by the racial Hutu tribe and manages to survive with only a handful of other Tutsi—hiding in the bathroom of her Hutu pastor.
The story of her triumphs over depression and negativity as she sat in a hopeless bathroom are remarkable. I strongly recommend this book and promise that you will not be able to set it down.
Immaculee’s hardships that she described with such passion and explicit detail, persuaded to be a better friend, more accepting, and more tolerant to others, refugees especially. I recommend it to anyone that wants to connect better with people in tough situations because the imagery and diction help the reader get to the place the author has been.
Ilibagiza, Immaculée, and Steve Erwin. Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2006. Print.
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