have really thrived on their work and discoveries.īut, to return to “the good doctor,” as you call him: Charles knows that the largest foreign earnings for his country comes from Sri Lankans working as domestics and construction laborers in the Middle East. from Sri Lanka in 1964 in a very common phenomenon safely labeled “the brain drain.” The best and the brightest members of less-developed communities wind up leaving, and we in the U.S. Even leaving out the seamier side of things like sex trafficking-well, I think about my dad, who came to the U.S. SY: That’s right, exactly the toll that commerce takes on humans-forget about grain and machine parts for a moment-is devastating. Wickramsinghe says, his country is in the business of “exporting maids.” I’m right there with Che.īP: It’s tough to participate in that true revolution when, as the good Dr. Che Guevara said that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. “Love” is so overused, but yes, it’s that agape love for your fellow human being. In the book I suggest it’s human connection.
We’re exhausted by our own anger and outrage and looking for reconciliation, looking for something beyond the anger, whatever that might be.
We’ve got a lot of problems, but we’re still ready for a book about protesting, a book about police brutality, in which one of the main characters is a young black man who is beaten brutally but survives and loves.
Which means that the world and the audience was ready for a book like this, a message of hope. Or not even celebrated-responded to, really. I don’t feel like my talent is being celebrated, I feel like my honesty is being celebrated.
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