Sunday at the Pool in Kigali – Gil Courtemanche

If you want to read one mans tale about the Rwandan genocides this is a good book to read. It was written by a Canadian journalist who is basically telling his story about his time in Rwanda during the genocides. It is written as fiction but quite a lot of it is fact other than a few name changes. This book is very graphic, very depressing at times, and sometimes can come off as being a bit preachy but all in all it is one man telling his account of what was an immense tragedy. This book
deals a lot with death, but through it all there is a bit of a love story, despite the dark situation it is in. Gil Courtemanche went through a lot in Rwanda and he doesn’t sugarcoat it in this novel. If you have the stomache for it it is worth the read.