"Turtles without a Sandy Beach is a rare and intimate account of the struggles, challenges, deepest fears, and hope that define humans during and after the turmoil of war, violence, and survival in Sri Lanka."

ANA CECILIA LOPEZ, JD & LLM

DIRECTOR & ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, USA

"Raj left peaceful Pennsylvania and a secure academic position ... to give understanding and aid to war refugees from Sri Lanka, his home country. Their terribly immediate memories gave rise to these poems, arrows of experience for us to hear, to understand, and to hold in our hearts."

DR. RICHARD J. PRESTON

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADA

"Dr Raj Ramanathapillai is an excellent story-teller. Even in the most unconscionable circumstances, the characters through which he speaks in these poems invoke empathy without becoming pitiful, inspire admiration without descending into caricature."

DR SUZY KILLMISTER (SHE/HER)

SENIOR LECTURER, PHILOSOPHY MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA