http://www.bates.edu/news Tue, 21 May 2013 20:28:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bates.edu/news/2009/09/30/huffington-post-sri-lankan-american-writes-disobedient-girl-reflecting-life-down-to-its-smallest-details/ http://www.bates.edu/news/2009/09/30/huffington-post-sri-lankan-american-writes-disobedient-girl-reflecting-life-down-to-its-smallest-details/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:05:20 +0000 Jay Burns http://home.bates.edu/?p=13425 Ru Seneviratne Freeman ’94, a political science major at Bates, was interviewed by The Huffington Post about her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl (Simon & Schuster), which tells of the intersecting lives of two Sri Lankan women who grow up in the same family. Latha is an orphan absorbed as a servant into a Sri Lankan family, and Thara is the family’s spoiled daughter. In her summary, reviewer Naazish YarKhan writes that at age 15, Latha “rebels against being sentenced to a life of servitude, [and] breaks Thara’s heart and sets in motion a chain of deceit, despair, anger and irreconcilable hurt.” YarKhan describes the book as “sad, so sad” yet with “honesty of feelings and thoughts that streamed across its pages.” (View story.)

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