Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel

Our Lady of the Nile: A NovelFriendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . Mukasongas masterpiece (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside

the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner

fracturing her world

a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself

drops dead at table two

This fateful decision sets in motion a sweeping tale of ambition

and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats

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She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes

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and expansive collection featuring exclusively Black characters

incarcerating whole populations

It includes stories meant to be shared by children and adults