Génocidaire is a short story hyper-focused on one family’s sudden awareness of the danger facing their lives and their attempt to escape Rwanda. The word génocidaire is defined as a person who is involved in a genocide; its English cognate would be “genocider,” if that were a word. The title applies in two ways: first, that the victims are génocidaires in that they too are involved in a genocide, and second, the story is also about the making of the titular entity.

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