So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba • 1979
Devastation Rating
injustice friendship literary fiction loss
Our Take
A Senegalese woman writes to her lifelong friend after her husband takes a second wife and the letter becomes a reckoning with everything her society has asked women to accept. Ba writes grief and fury in the same register: quiet, controlled, devastating. The friendship between the two women is the real love story.
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