A review by lbelow
Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

This family history/memoir is visceral, all the more so when I realized that the author is dead. Written as an accounting of her parents' experience with the Khmer Rouge as well as her experiences as a refugee in Canada and her work returning her to Cambodia in search of answers to the past, from time to time these accounts also include letters to her son after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. This account educated me about the genocide in Cambodia in the seventies, but it also moved me deeply as a body of work written to connect a child of refugees to his family and roots in Cambodia. Such a beautiful memoir, and one I certainly recommend! 
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