Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: Original Edition, 2012 Paperback: 368 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0062091913 ISBN-13: 978-0062091918 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung illuminates her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward toward happiness.

When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with post-traumatic stress, cultural assimilation roadblocks, and the abandonment of her sister in Cambodia.

Now, Lulu in the Sky tells the next chapter in Ung's life, revealing her daily struggle to keep darkness and depression at bay while she attends college and falls in love with Mark Priemer, a Midwestern archetype of American optimism. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Ung's tentative steps into love, activism, and marriage—a journey that takes her to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother's spirit, to a vocation focused on healing the landscape of her birth, and to the patience and unconditional support of a very special man.

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Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: Original Edition, 2012 Paperback: 368 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0062091913 ISBN-13: 978-0062091918 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

Book Description

Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung illuminates her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward toward happiness.

When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with post-traumatic stress, cultural assimilation roadblocks, and the abandonment of her sister in Cambodia.

Now, Lulu in the Sky tells the next chapter in Ung's life, revealing her daily struggle to keep darkness and depression at bay while she attends college and falls in love with Mark Priemer, a Midwestern archetype of American optimism. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Ung's tentative steps into love, activism, and marriage—a journey that takes her to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother's spirit, to a vocation focused on healing the landscape of her birth, and to the patience and unconditional support of a very special man.

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers [Paperback]

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers [Paperback]

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers [Paperback]

Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 288 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0060856262 ISBN-13: 978-0060856267 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.2 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

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Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 288 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0060856262 ISBN-13: 978-0060856267 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.2 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind [Paperback]

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind [Paperback]

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind [Paperback]

Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 268 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0060733950 ISBN-13: 978-0060733957 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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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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Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 268 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0060733950 ISBN-13: 978-0060733957 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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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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