Kirabo is happy growing up in a small Ugandan village with her grandparents. But as she enters her teens, she begins to long for the mother she has never known. At once epic, deeply personal and steeped in Ugandan history, The First Woman follows Kirabo on her journey to find her place in the world as her country is transformed by the bloody dictatorship of Idi Amin. A dazzling feminist coming of age tale from the award-winning author of "Kintu".