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Tharcisse Seminega. No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda. Davenport, Iowa: GM&A Publishing, 2019. xxiv + 294 pp. Photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781937188030.

Over the twenty-five years following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, countless memoirs, autobiographies, and autofictional works have been published about this period and the events leading up to it. Tharcisse Seminega’s No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda is a welcome addition to this body of literature, in that it featuresmultiple new perspectives on and experiences of the genocide. However, the memoir also captures some of the inherent difficulties inherent in representing the genocide. InNo Greater Love, Seminega interweaves his account of Rwanda’s history with more personal memories of his experience growing up in the Belgian colony. While he acknowledges that inequality existed, insofar as Belgian colonizers favored Tutsi people and Tutsi, on occasion, exploited Hutu people through the long-standing practice of cattle clientship, he maintains that Hutu and Tutsi people lived in relative harmony during this time. Seminega reflects on how this changed as Rwandans gained independence. With the death of the king, the formation of multiple ethnic-centered political parties, the rise of Hutu Power, and repeated outbreaks of violence, his own family was forced to leave Rwanda; he experienced ethnic discrimination as a Tutsi person for the first time; and his scholarly pursuits were disrupted. Nevertheless, Seminega studied to become a priest but became disenchanted with Catholicism. He left the seminary and earned a doctorate in Europe, married and had five children, became a Jehovah’s Witness, and returned to Rwanda with his family shortly before the genocide began. While Seminega’s family was targeted to be killed, they survived with the help of fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses and other Hutu allies who sheltered them. While Seminega’s experience as a Jehovah’s Witness is unique among memoirs about the 1994 genocide, what sets No Greater Love apart from other autobiographical works is its inclusion of multiple perspectives. Throughout Seminega’s memoir are narrative interludes featuring the words of his wife and his father, as well as lengthy appendices presenting the stories of