April 22, 2009
Review of Ru Freeman's 'A Disobedient Girl'
This debut novel has a gentle charm of a particularly Sinhalese-Sri Lankan flavour.
“She loved fine things and she had no doubt she deserved them.”
This is the opening sentence of the novel, and one which made me smile. A good, provocative opening sentence to reel the reader right in. This sentence alone encapsulates the protagonist’s personality and priorities, which is to shape her motivations, actions, and subsequent situations. Given a society like the Sri Lankan one with its rigid and hierarchical class structures and gender dos-and-don’ts, combined with the telling title, it was clear from the outset that our protagonist was going to break some rules, get into some trouble, and defy some societal norms.
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