Perhaps Tomorrow by Pooranam Elayathamby and Richard Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Name of the book: Perhaps Tomorrow – The Memoir of a Sri Lankan Housemaid in the Middle East Name of Author: Pooranam Elayathamby with Richard Anderson Publisher: First published by Wheatmark,USA 2014; IN India in paperback by Speaking Tiger 2017 ISBN: 978-81-933141-6-6 Genre: Non-fiction/ Memoir Price: Rs 299 Pages: 244 Imagine carrying a thirty-kilo sack of rice on your back, even before puberty struck, and carrying it door-to-door to sell it. Add to it the scorching summer and a barefooted you; and adding further salt to the wound, your former classmates are off to school to do what you have always loved to do—study—while you slog knowing that there is no other option if you want your family of a widowed mother and five sisters to survive. This was just a part of Sandy’s (born Pooranam Elayathamby) routine in her early years in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. ...
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