“I’m a librarian, you couldn’t shock me if you tried.”
I really hate when parents don’t respect their kids personal space or boundaries and then get offended or upset when you get mad or they act like its nothing because they’re your parents. They are your children not your fucking property.
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too—and in the US, it continues to do so since we are, after all, a country at war… This country is at war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and how many of us know soldiers? …In Sri Lanka, it was different. It is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed. The suicide bombers—in the capital city, etc.—makes it hard to insulate oneself from it.
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The Rumpus Book Club Discussion with Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane(via therumpus) |
