Archive for July 21, 2009
A DISOBEDIENT GIRL by Ru Freeman
Ru Freeman’s remarkable debut novel, set in Sri Lanka and told in the context of civil unrest, unfolds like a hard candy being unwrapped in the theater, twist by crinkling twist, until finally, after suspenseful moments, the sweet interior is finally free. Here, the two ends of the wrapping seem unrelated: the story of Latha, a headstrong servant girl raised with a more privileged “sister,” Thara; and that of Biso, a woman fleeing her abusive husband with her three children in tow. The women are products of a culture that gives both class and men the power to decide their destinies, and yet they rebel against it, often under the cover of deceit, with the hope that their secret choices will finally make them happy.
July 21, 2009
Tags: Choices Posted in: Book Club Choice, Debut Novel, Literary, Sri Lanka, Women's Fiction, race & class 
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