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I\u2019m thrilled to announce the release of my latest book, Sister Deborah<\/em>, now available from my U.S. publisher, Archipelago Books. Beautifully translated from French to English by Mark Polizzotti, this novel is finally accessible to English-speaking readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My heartfelt thanks to Jill Schoolman and the entire team at Archipelago Books for their dedicated work. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sister Deborah<\/em>, when time-worn ancestral remedies fail to heal young Ikirezi\u2019s ailments, she is taken to the Rwandan hillsides, where health blooms under Sister Deborah\u2019s hands as she sits beneath a coral tree. As women bare their breasts to the rising sun, men under thatched roofs stand \u201cstunned and impotent before this female fury.\u201d Years later, Ikirezi, now grown, unearths the mystery of Sister Deborah’s journey from America to 1930s Rwanda and the secrets surrounding her sudden departure, encountering colonial records that label Sister Deborah as a \u201cpathogen,\u201d an \u201cincident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Ikirezi\u2019s search, the novel asks: Who holds the truth? Who stands at the threshold of memory?<\/em> Sister Deborah<\/em> moves within the slippages of history to tell a profound story of what happens when women\u2014especially Black women and girls\u2014seek the truth against all odds. It is a journey of remembrance, breathing life back into what has been forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you all for your support, and happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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