A review by chillcox15
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga

4.0

In turn a memoir of the author memories of her mother and a more ethnographic depiction of life in communities of displaced Tutsis. Mukasonga's authorial voice is excellent, weaving together different aspects of the feminine life that her mother, along with the other women in her community, navigated on a daily basis. I do think we lose her mother a bit as the book goes on, leaning more into the communal in place of the specific, but I acknowledge that may be my own societal expectation of individuality bearing some weight.