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After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives

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After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives

Loung is the "lucky child" in the family. Her oldest brother, Meng, chooses her to go with him and his wife. Her sister, Chua, is the "unlucky child" and she stays behind in Cambodia. The book tells the story of both sisters. In the odd-numbered chapters, we learn how Loung grows up from 10 to 25 years old, how she assimilates into American culture, and how she copes with the memories of her life during the Cambodia genocide (1975 - 1979)