{"id":457,"date":"2018-12-04T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=457"},"modified":"2019-01-10T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:01:51","slug":"literary-hub-11-books-to-read-this-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/literary-hub-11-books-to-read-this-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Hub : 11 books to read this December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>The Barefoot Woman<\/em>\u201d was named one of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/11-books-you-should-read-this-december\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11 books to read this December<\/a>\u201d by <strong>Literary Hub <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/barefoot-woman\/\">The Barefoot Woman<\/a>&#8220;, translated by Jordan Stump, is out now on Archipelago Books .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m excited to see Scholastique Mukasonga\u2019s readership expanding. This past month, she even had her first story published in the New Yorker, which is a big occasion for an artist born in Rwanda who writes in French who has been championed by an indie publisher like Archipelago Books. The Barefoot Woman is a testament to Mukasonga\u2019s mother and her fight to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide. This is the third book by Mukasonga brought to English, and there\u2019s a fourth, Inyenzi, coming soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013Nate McNamara, Lit Hub contributor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Barefoot Woman\u201d was named one of \u201c11 books to read this December\u201d by Literary Hub . My book &#8220;The Barefoot Woman&#8220;, translated by Jordan Stump, is out now on Archipelago Books . I\u2019m excited to see Scholastique Mukasonga\u2019s readership expanding. This past month, she even had her first story published in the New Yorker,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,70,41,10,65],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Literary Hub : 11 books to read this December - Scholastique Mukasonga<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe Barefoot Woman\u201d was named one of \u201c11 books to read this December\u201d by Literary Hub .\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/literary-hub-11-books-to-read-this-december\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Literary Hub : 11 books to read this December - 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