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After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind. Loung Ung by Loung Ung, Loung Ung

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bbqxaxiu's review against another edition

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2.0

2.5

hanahe's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.25

simmo391's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

A very touching and emotional book it bought a tear to my eye. The pictures included in this book are an amazing touch as it puts a face to the lives I am learning about and gives that extra connection to their story.

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5.0

As much as her first, intensely tragic book moved me, Loung Ung's Lucky Child has influenced me even more. With this book, she single-handedly ignited my specific interest in the refugee experience as an anthropologist, and sparked my personal love affair with Asian-American culture and tales of Asian-American experience. Everyone who lives in America should read this book.

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4.0

This was good, an interesting contrast of two sister's lives. I didn't realize this was a sequel to her first book, which I would have like to have read first. I think that would have made it even more gripping, but overall a good portrayal of the main character overcoming her demons from her experience in Cambodia, and coming to terms with her estranged family.

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4.0

Global Read 33: Cambodia

In trying to find a book from Cambodia, I read that there are no publishers in Cambodia. The article was from a few years ago, but it might explain why all the books I can find are memoirs about the genocide. This was fascinating in that it compared the experience of one sister who stayed in Cambodia and one who got out, and the feelings that go along with reuniting. It was really well written.