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It is hard for any of us to separate what is imagined from what is real. We are all story-tellers of our own lives, narrating what we observe, making sense of it all. What happens around us is equally complicated for, as the writer, Anaèis Nin put it, "we don't see the world as it is, as we see it as we are." In that liminal space between what is and what we think it is, we write history: our own and that of others. That word, history, has its...

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Sleeping Alone is a collection of rich and evocative stories about what it means to cross borders, both real and imagined. These stories look closely at the experiences of people as they try to make sense of new places ranging from Maine to Sri Lanka, and from Dublin to Philadelphia. The families who inhabit these stories-husbands and wives, brothers and sisters-must find their way among the unfamiliar, forced to reconcile the homes and identi...

Global leaders and activists writing about what they understand shared security to be.

SHE LOVED FINE THINGS, AND SHE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE DESERVED THEM. . . . Young Latha knows that she was not meant to be a servant. She was born for finer things, like the rose-smelling soap she steals from the family she has worked for since she was five, or the glasses of fresh lime juice she helps herself to after a long day. But the hard truth is that her life is tied to Thara, the family's spoiled daughter, and for the next thirty years t...

Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, A Disobedient Girl traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life's most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place. The story begins with two ...

In the tradition of "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "The Kite Runner, " a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war. A beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, and a rejected son and his twin sisters contrast sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care.

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In the tradition of "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "The Kite Runner, " a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war. A beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, and a rejected son and his twin sisters contrast sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care.

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In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.

In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.