by Vaddey Ratner (Simon & Schuster)
Just 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge conquered Cambodia, Ratner and her family were part of the forced exodus that emptied Phnom Penh. Like countless fellow Cambodians, her family endured forced labor, starvation, cruelty and execution. Her father, a descendant of a Cambodian king and a poet, disappeared. Based on her family’s story, the first-time novelist tells of 7-year-old Raami, swept up in the horrors of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. In the midst of all the despair, Raami’s mother protects her and the young girl manages to holds onto the beauty of her father’s poetry.
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