Book Review! on Frenemey Matriarchs
The tale begins in Uganda in 1945, when a fifteen-year-old Merab Nantamu discovers she's about to be married off to an older rural farmer. But Merab is as courageous as she is resourceful. Sixteen years later she has enrolled her child in an excellent school, moved herself and her husband to the city, and is the owner of a popular restaurant. Ruth Wamala is a bright and diligent student. After qualifying as a teacher and spending years in England to further her education, she fights to make a career first in the civil service and then later as a business owner and entrepreneur, all while balancing the demands of family and home. Although from radically different backgrounds, both young women are determined to use their best talents in a male-dominated society that values women only in their roles as wives, mother, and daughters. When their paths cross, each opposes what the other stands for until they have to fight a common enemy and help change traditional Ugandan society, eac
