In a beautiful country where fate, religion and sorrow are like living beings, five year old Latha is brought into the Vithanage home as a servant girl and companion to Thara, the daughter of the house and a girl her own age. Though their girlhood is spent together in intimate friendship, Latha grows up yearning constantly for the things that are denied to her: the fragrance of roses, glass bangles, sandals and the love of a boy. When, at fifteen, she finally rebels against being sentenced to a life of servitude, she breaks Thara’s heart and sets in motion a chain of deceit, despair, anger and irreconcilable hurt. I read Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman this summer, hot off book store shelves, as my final pick for the summer. Like the other novels I’d chosen for my summer read-a-thon, it didn’t disappoint. It was sad, so sad and yet the honesty of feelings and thoughts that streamed across its pages made me wonder about the author. How did she know so much that was so true about the inner workings of the mind and heart? Her wisdom does belie her age. A SriLankan writer whose political journalism and fiction has been published internationally, Ru Freeman is an author whose rise will be worth watching. She lives in PA.
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