The Barefoot Woman Author:Scholastique Mukasonga 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 forgotten. — 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. Rec... more »ording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.« less