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Ru Freeman was born into a family of writers and many boys in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After a year of informal study at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, she arrived in the United States with a Parker ink pen and a box of Staedler pencils to attend Bates College in Maine. She completed her Masters in Labor Relations at the University of Colombo, and worked in the field of American and international humanitarian assistance and workers' rights. Her political writing has appeared in English and in translation. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Story Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, WriteCorner Press, Kaduwa and elsewhere. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, will also be published in Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Hebrew. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and countries underneath her skin.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Ru Freeman recommends
Miss Me Forever (2023)
Eugene Cross
"With Miss Me Forever, Cross fixes a compassionate and unapologetic gaze upon Tulsi Gurung, 'a refugee from a place he has never seen.' In America, where things are bigger than they are elsewhere, particularly loss and heartache, Tulsi builds himself an emotional safe house anchored by four immutable devotions: love for his grandfather, search for his sister, mastery over his own story, and a new language in which to state his case. The journey is both utterly moving and utterly compelling. In a country made up of refugee stories, Tulsi's voyage into a future that can contain and transcend his past stands out. An exceptional novel from one of our best."
Salt Houses (2017)
Hala Alyan
"A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart."
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