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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 300326
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0060733950
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0495930092
EAN: 9780060733957
ASIN: 0060733950
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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Condition: Softcover. Cover is creased. Some wear to the cover. Pages appear unmarked. Ships the next business day, with tracking and delivery confirmation sent to your email.
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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 voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.
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 Engaging and gripping tale of immigrant experience May 19, 2005
G. Griffith (washington, dc)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Ms. Ung has once again given us a powerful rendering of what it means to survive. Her first book, First They Killed My Father" was extraordinary for its ability to translate the experience of the Cambodian genocide for a public disconnected to the realities of that war.
Her second book is no less a tour de force, giving us an eye into the life of a young girl from a radically different culture (and history of deprevation) trying to come to terms with this American life. She does it remarkably well, with candor and grace.
In depth look at change in life February 5, 2006
Kirk W. Leichner (Still wandering)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Last year, I picked up First They Killed My Father while I was in Cambodia. I had already read Chanrithy Him's - When Broken Glass Floats. Both of these books are very powerful and must reads in the genre of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979. Lucky Child is a book that takes place in a completely different world. At the end of "First They", we see Loung heading for a new life in America and we all give a sigh of relief.
Lucky Child goes in depth into the difficulties of a minority trying to adapt to white American society. All the while, Loung has everything she experienced in Cambodia continually gnawing at her spirit - the loss of her family being the most difficult for her. As the author, she is our focus, but in Lucky Child, we also get a very good look at her older sister Chou and what life was like in Cambodia in the years following the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
This book is powerful and tough to put down. It tugs at the heartstrings and provokes deeper thought into our own lives and values. Lucky Child is one of the finer books that I have read in some time and I highly reccomend it to anyone who is interested in Cambodia, the peoples, customs and landscapes of that beautiful country, and human nature, suffering, and the will to succeed. This is a book not to be missed!
Maybe to soon for me to review June 9, 2005
Clavo (USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I just finished "First They Killed My Father" the day before, and walked down to the bookstore and scoured around the shelves to pick this book up. Then read it all in one sitting through the night. If you've read her first book, you really should read this, so you can see how things work out for the Ung family. Although, a great read on its own, I think it best if people read both books and in chronological order.
Not sure what about this particular story of this one girl and her family managed to pull my heart out of my chest over and over. I found myself in tears almost every page. The thoughts that there are millions of stories like this one that came out of Cambodia, gives to ideas that the whole world should be getting together to grieve over this tragedy and helping socially to heal the wounds caused to Cambodia by this war.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Heroism January 31, 2006
Greg Robertson (West Quincy, MA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you're a human being, you should read this inspiring and moving book. Yes, it will tug at your heartstrings and enliven your empathy, but it will also make it crystal clear how a stridently divisive political and social climate - worse than, but politically not unlike America today - can push people into doing the unthinkable to their neighbors, while leaving others asking, "How could this have happened?" It's all her story, but anyone with a brain...and a heart...can see its connection to his or her own life.
Loung Ung's writing is an elegant and eloquent, yet down-to-earth style that you won't be able to pull away from. In "Lucky Child," she again demonstrates her masterful storytelling ability and delivers a unique, and often heartbreaking, look inside another culture. And our own.
This book will make you think, make you feel, and, hopefully, encourage you to act the next time you hear the words "abuse" or "genocide." Definitely a must-read.
Lucky Child July 31, 2005
Joe E. Grant (Los Angeles)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book very much. I heard an interview with the author on our local NPR radio station and bought the book the next day. The discriptions of her feelings and the contrasts between her life in Vermont and her sisters in Cambodia were moving and very artfully done. This is a must read for all of us who sometimes take for granite the freedoms we enjoy and a true picture of courage and faith.
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