![]() ![]() ![]() Rawiri positions Emilienne’s domestic problems in the context of her extended family, as it is revealed that Joseph’s mother, Eyang-who resides with the couple-dislikes Emilienne and is plotting for her husband to divorce her and marry his mistress. Emilienne becomes determined to overcome her infertility in order to compensate for the loss of her daughter and save her marriage. ![]() Meanwhile, the loss of their primary reason for staying together exacerbates the distance and antagonism between Emilienne and her husband, Joseph. Devastated, Emilienne blames herself for taking her only child for granted during her struggles to have a second one. Tragedy strikes when on the same day that Emilienne has experienced yet another miscarriage-which is vividly described in the opening of the novel-her only daughter, Rékia, goes missing and is found brutally murdered. However, subsequent pregnancies over the next decade end in miscarriage and she realizes that her husband is having affairs with other women. In the first year of her marriage, she gave birth to a daughter. Emilienne defied the expectations of her family and in-laws by marrying a man she met in college who does not belong to the same tribe as her family. ![]() In her third novel, The Fury and Cries of Women, she focuses on the maladies faced in marriage and motherhood by an educated African woman. Angèle Rawiri holds the distinction of being the author of the first novel to be published by a Gabonese writer. ![]()
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