*Bridge of hope and sorrow*

Kigali, April 1994. On the night a president's plane falls from the sky, Jerry Mmary and Eva Kagoyire are drawing their wedding invitation in a rain-soaked café. Nine days later, at the center of Rusumo Bridge, a crowd tears them apart-and Jerry's hand opens. He crosses into Tanzania. She does not. For ten years, Jerry believes he let go of the only woman he ever loved to save a green passport. He builds an empire of grief: searching refugee lists, chasing rumors across three countries, carrying a folded drawing of two birds against his heart. When he finally returns to Rwanda for the genocide's tenth commemoration, a dying man's confession at a village gacaca court cracks open a truth far stranger-and far more dangerous-than the one he has mourned for a decade. Because someone has been lying to him. And the closer Jerry gets to the truth, the more he understands that everyone he loved-his father, Eva's mother, the housekeeper who raised him-has been protecting a secret that could still get someone killed. Bridge of Hope and Sorrow is a sweeping novel of love tested by genocide, complicity hidden inside ordinary kindness, and the cost of a truth kept too long. Spanning thirty years-from a roadblock outside Kayonza to a courtroom in Nyanza to the same bridge where it all began-it asks what we owe the dead, what we owe the living, and how far a person will go to protect the ones they love from the truth. >Content note: This novel depicts genocide, including violence against children. Read with care.