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Start: 8:00 pm
CANCELLED: Naomi Benaron has had to cancel her event with us. We are sorry for any inconvience this might have caused. Running the Rift (Algonquin, $24.95) 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 where the man who used
to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who
flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your
Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down
your family. 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. When the killing begins, Jean Patrick is
forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, the family, and the country he
loves. Finding them again is the race of his life.
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