Bon Courage: Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship, and a Creative Life by Ru Freeman
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Bon Courage is an exhilarating journey through a layered intellectual landscape textured with a range of political and personal enthusiasms, and emboldened by a passionate defense of the disregarded. Wide ranging and inclusive in the essay mode, deep and revealing as a memoir, with the dynamics and layering of great fiction. As if that’s not enough, it sings. Ru Freeman participates intimately while bringing global perspectives to subjects as diverse as Bowie and Dylan, Palestine, 9/11, hairstyles, personal and cultural identity, motherhood, and #MeToo. A resplendent and compendious exploration of great empathy, insight, and bon courage indeed. Th is is a book that is going to make a difference.
About The Author
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally in English and in translation. She is the author of Sleeping Alone: Stories, the novels A Disobedient Girl and On Sal Mal Lane, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, and editor of the anthologies Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine and Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security. She teaches creative writing in the U.S. and abroad.
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