Waiting for the Sunrise: One Family's Struggle against Genocide and Racism

Waiting for the Sunrise: One Family’s Struggle against Genocide and Racism gives a personal account of one family’s experience through the horror of the civil war that plagued Rwanda in 1994. Raised in the American Midwest, author Elizabeth Gatorano had little idea of the trials she would soon face after she married Phanuel, an immigrant to the United States from Rwanda.

In 1994, when fighting broke out in Phanuel’s home country, both Liz and Phanuel worked diligently to bring as many membe...