Ru Freeman 
Bon Courage [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship, and a Creative Life

—Introduction 

—Hero 

—Memory, Loss 

—I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been, an Adolescent 

—Uncle Moe’s Diner 

—Black Skin White Skin 

—Many Rights, Few Responsibilities 

—A Fight in Good Hands 

—When in Doubt, Climb the Roof 

—A Brief for the Defense of a White Man 

—Circumstances 

—Lest We Forget 1. With God (and Weapons of Mass Destruction) On Our Side 2. The Fear Factor 3. Counting the Dead 4. Ahmadinejad v. Bush: The Village Druid v. The Zygote 5. American Shame 6. I Cannot Weep for Mariane Pearl 7. The First Mistake: Barack Obama’s Silence on Gaza 8. Osama bin Laden and America’s Celebration of Death 9. Whose Wars Are These? 

—Pineapple and Roasted Nuts 

—Five Books That Shaped My Life 1. Staying Hungry on Enid Blyton 2. Silk 3. One Book to Rule Them All 4. Extraordinary Rendition 5. Our Security is, by Definition, Indivisible 

—What Is Feminism? 

 —Worth It 

—Dear Natalie Gyte: I Hope You Dance 

—#Me Too Is Not Enough

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 directs the Artist Network at Narrative 4 and teaches creative writing in the U.S. and abroad.