I just finished this book and wanted to share a passage that especially spoke to me. A grandmother, Nsuuta is speaking to her young granddaughter, Kirabo about her naughty behavior.
"Listen, you fly out of your body because our original state is in you. " She poked Kirabo in a Lucky you way.
"Our original state?"
"Yes, the way women were in the beginning."
"Were we not like this?"
"Of course not." Nsuuta was indignant, as if this current state were contemptible. "We changed when the original state was bred out of us."
Kirabo looked at her hands as if to see the change. "Was it bad what we were? Is it what makes me do bad things?"
"No, it was not bad at all. In fact, it was wonderful for us. We were not squeezed inside, we were huge, strong, bold, loud, proud, brave, independent. But it was too much for the world and they got rid of it. However, occasionally that state is reborn in a girl like you. But in all cases it is suppressed. In your case the first woman flies out of your body because it does not relate to the way this society is."
"But how do we get rid of it?"
"Get rid of it? Child, it is a gift. Let it grow, let us see what we were like, what we are capable of?"...."It is our story."
"Our story?"
"It is an untold story."
"Untold?" Her eyes lit up.
"It got buried a long time ago until it was forgotten."
"But you know it?"
"I dug it up."
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