Hoge Kwaliteit Lucky Child A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind – Loung Ung

When Loung Ung came to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father. Now, in Lucky Child, Ung writes of assimilation and, in alternating chapters, gives voice to a genocide survivor she left behind in rural Cambodia, her older sister Chou. Loung was the lucky child, the sibling Eldest Brother chose to take with him to Ame…