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So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba’s

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So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba’s

This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award.

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So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba’s

So Long a Letter is written as a series of entries in a long letter from the main character Ramatoulaye Fall to her best friend Aissatou following the sudden death from a heart attack of Ramatoulaye’s husband Modou Fall. The letter is written while Ramatoulaye is going through ‘Iddah’, a four-month and ten-day mourning process that widows of the Muslim Senegalese culture must follow. Ramatoulaye begins by recalling and describing the emotions that flooded her during the first few days after her husband’s death and speaks in detail about how he lost his life. She transitions the tone and time by discussing the life she had with her husband, from the beginning of their relationship to his betrayal of a thirty-year marriage by secretly marrying his daughter’s school best friend to the life he had with his second wife. Throughout this short and compelling novel, Ramatoulaye details to Aissatou, who experienced a similar but different marital situation, how she emotionally dealt with and was changed by his betrayal, his death, and by being a single mother of many.