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A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgottenThe Barefoot Woman is the story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.

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"A living-record document, the voice of culture, tradition, and hope. -- ""World Literature Today"" A profoundly affecting memoir of a mother lost to ethnic violence. -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" A powerful work of witness and memorial...[that] rescues a million souls from the collective noun 'genocide, ' returning them to us as individual human beings, who lived, laughed, meddled in each other's affairs, worked, decorated their houses, raised children, told stories. -- ""Zadie Smith, New York Times bestselling author"" Radiant with love...The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women's work it so lovingly recounts. -- ""New York Times"" This is an important book written for a strong and loving woman. -- ""Bookish"""

A living-record document, the voice of culture, tradition, and hope. -- World Literature Today A profoundly affecting memoir of a mother lost to ethnic violence. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A powerful work of witness and memorial...[that] rescues a million souls from the collective noun 'genocide, ' returning them to us as individual human beings, who lived, laughed, meddled in each other's affairs, worked, decorated their houses, raised children, told stories. -- Zadie Smith, New York Times bestselling author Radiant with love...The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women's work it so lovingly recounts. -- New York Times This is an important book written for a strong and loving woman. -- Bookish

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Scholastique Mukasonga is an award-winning French Rwandan author of novels, memoirs, and short stories. Born in Rwanda in 1956, she experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and underdeveloped Bugesera district of Rwanda. She was later forced to flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, she learned that thirty-seven of her family members had been massacred. Jordan Stump received the 2001 French-American Foundation's Translation Prize for his translation of Le Jardin des Plantes by Nobel Prize winner Claude Simon. In 2006, Stump was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has translated the work of Eric Chevillard, Marie Redonnet, Patrick Modiano, Honoré de Balzac, and Jules Verne, among others. He is a professor of French literature at the University of Nebraska. Waceke Wambaa is a voiceover artist with a passion for storytelling. She has experience with medical and corporate narration, commercials, documentaries, explainer videos, promos, audiobooks, and more. In her spare time, she can be found dabbling in her backyard, singing, acting, writing books, and volunteering as a reader at North Carolina Reading Service.

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