Our Lady of the Nile

In "Our Lady of the Nile," Scholastique Mukasonga immerses listeners in an elite Catholic boarding school for girls situated by the Nile, where parents hope to shield their daughters from the outside world's perils. Set fifteen years before the Rwandan genocide, the narrative unfolds within the school, revealing a microcosm of the country’s escalating racial tensions through themes of friendship, fear, and prejudice. Mukasonga's masterful prose captures a society on the brink of horror, as the tumultuous rainy season intensifies the undercurrents of deceit and persecution.