Funny Boy Emigration & Immigration Shug Avery and Sofia and

Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience

ambition and belonging

By: Xandria Phillips

leaving its people on the brink of collapse

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land

Funny Boy Emigration & Immigration Shug Avery and Sofia andBy: Shyam Selvadurai Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil Sinhalese conflicts that