About this Event
Literature in Translation Book Group with Mandy and Maritza
Discusses Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti
Led by Greenlight booksellers Mandy and Maritza, our Literature in Translation Book Group meets monthly to discuss books from around the world, with a particular focus on marginalized voices and indie presses.
For March, the group discusses Sister Deborah, written by prize-winning French-Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga and translated, from French, by Mark Polizzotti. When time-worn ancestral remedies fail to heal young Ikirezi’s maladies, she is rushed to the Rwandan hillsides, where health blooms under Sister Deborah’s hands. Now grown, Ikirezi unearths the truth of Sister Deborah’s passage from America to 1930s Rwanda, and the mystery surrounding her sudden departure. A beautiful novel that works in the slippages of history, Sister Deborah at its core is a story of what happens when women—black women and girls—seek the truth by any means.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Fritz, 737 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, United States
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