In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossible resurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memories of lost loved ones and of their own experiences of violence, women rebuilt their lives from less than nothing. Neither passive victims nor innate peacemakers, they traversed dangerous emotional and political terrain to emerge as leaders in Rwanda today. This clear and engaging ethnography of survival tackles three interrelated phenomena memory, silence, and justice and probes the contradictory roles women played in postgenocide...