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The Barefoot Woman: An Evening with Scholastique Mukasonga

Join Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Cockroaches (listed by The New York Times as one of the 50 best memoirs published since 1969), and professor and translator Kaiama L. Glover for a discussion on her latest memoir, The Barefoot Woman, published by Archipelago Books, and translated from the French by J. Stump.

The Barefoot Woman is Mukasonga’s loving, funny, devastating tribute to her mother Stefania, a tireless protector of her children, a keeper of Rwandan tradition even in the cruelest and bleakest of exiles, a sage, a wit, and in the end a victim, like almost the entire family, of the Rwandan genocide. But it’s also a wry, sharp-eyed portrait of the world her mother lived in, from its humblest commonplaces (beer, sorghum, bread) to its deepest horrors (rape, murder, unimaginable loss).

“Radiant with love… The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women’s work it so lovingly recounts. In Mukasonga’s village, the women were in charge of the fire. They stoked it, kept it going all night, every night. In her work — six searing books and counting — she has become the keeper of the flame.” — The New York Times  

In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.











When: Wed., Sep. 25, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Where: Albertine
972 Fifth Ave.
332-228-2238
Price: Free
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Join Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Cockroaches (listed by The New York Times as one of the 50 best memoirs published since 1969), and professor and translator Kaiama L. Glover for a discussion on her latest memoir, The Barefoot Woman, published by Archipelago Books, and translated from the French by J. Stump.

The Barefoot Woman is Mukasonga’s loving, funny, devastating tribute to her mother Stefania, a tireless protector of her children, a keeper of Rwandan tradition even in the cruelest and bleakest of exiles, a sage, a wit, and in the end a victim, like almost the entire family, of the Rwandan genocide. But it’s also a wry, sharp-eyed portrait of the world her mother lived in, from its humblest commonplaces (beer, sorghum, bread) to its deepest horrors (rape, murder, unimaginable loss).

“Radiant with love… The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women’s work it so lovingly recounts. In Mukasonga’s village, the women were in charge of the fire. They stoked it, kept it going all night, every night. In her work — six searing books and counting — she has become the keeper of the flame.” — The New York Times  

In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

Buy tickets/get more info now