{"id":13425,"date":"2009-09-30T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:33","slug":"huffington-post-sri-lankan-american-writes-disobedient-girl-reflecting-life-down-to-its-smallest-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/09\/30\/huffington-post-sri-lankan-american-writes-disobedient-girl-reflecting-life-down-to-its-smallest-details\/","title":{"rendered":"The Huffington Post interviews Ru Seneviratne Freeman &#039;94 about her debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ru Seneviratne Freeman &#8217;94, a political science major at Bates, was interviewed by <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> about her debut novel, <em>A Disobedient Girl<\/em> (Simon &amp; 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&#8217;s spoiled daughter. In her summary, reviewer Naazish YarKhan writes that at age 15, Latha &#8220;rebels against being sentenced to a life of servitude, [and] breaks Thara\u2019s heart and sets in motion a chain of deceit, despair, anger and irreconcilable hurt.&#8221; YarKhan describes the book as &#8220;sad, so sad&#8221; yet with &#8220;honesty of feelings and thoughts that streamed across its pages.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/naazish-yarkhan\/sri-lankan-american-write_b_277488.html\">(View story<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ru Seneviratne Freeman &#8217;94, a political science major at Bates, was interviewed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,8,133,9,175,179,10,11009],"tags":[11051,10770,9512],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-bates-values","category-creativity","category-current-topics","category-justice-poverty","category-language-literature","category-people","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-politics","tag-writing-at-bates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions\/82882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}