Please join us for our Drop-in Book Club!
We will meet on Zoom to discuss our chosen book and share thoughts and insights. We will read a variety of books, all fiction, with the occasional memoir or biography. The books we choose are by authors from various parts of the world. You can join us once, you can attend each session, or anything in between!
Our next book is by the Senegalese writer, Mariama Ba.
Next meeting: Thursday, February 27th at 7:00pm
"So Long a Letter," by Mariama Ba
From Goodreads:
"Mariama Bâ (1929 – 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from [African] traditions. Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain an education, because they did not believe that girls should be taught. Bâ later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine children.
Her frustration with the fate of African women—as well as her ultimate acceptance of it—is expressed in her first novel, So Long a Letter. In it she depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. Abiola Irele called it "the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction". This short book was awarded the first Noma Prize for Publishing in Africa in 1980.[1]
Bâ died a year later after a protracted illness, before her second novel, Scarlet Song, which describes the hardships a woman faces when her husband abandons her for a younger woman he knew at youth, was published."
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Topic: HCSC Monthly Book Club
Time: Sep 26, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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