Cambodian circus group shines light on Khmer Rouge era
entertainment-arts-19169044 If you have 2 minutes free, watch this BBC video. Bravo to the performers and their unique way of sharing the KR story. Amazing. LU
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Market Garden Brewery’s Brews & Prose Reading Series a hit!
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Good WED! It is official, our Brews & Prose series is a hit! Last night, at our second event, over 100 people came to hear poet Sarah Gridley and author Dan Chaon (author of ‘You Remind me of me’) read. Next month, our speakers will be poet Catherine Wing and Paula McClain, author of The Paris Read More
Novelist Vaddey Ratner’s book: ‘In the Shadow of the Banyan’
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Congrats to Vaddey Ratner on the publication of her new book, ‘In the Shadow of the Banyon’! LU
Loung Ung Writes Home
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Interview.com April 17, 2012 Fear follows us. It followed Loung Ung from the death-filled Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia to a hopeful new life in America. In her memoir Lulu In The Sky (Harper Perennial), Loung evocatively shares her journey from bitter, angry young girl lost in the child soldier camps of the Khmer, to Read More
WCPN interview: Loung Ung: Writer, Survivor and Activist
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WCPN: 10-year-old Loung Ung survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia. She fled the genocide that killed nearly two million people. But more than 20 of her relatives died including her parents and two siblings. We’ll meet with Ung – now grown up and living in Northeast Ohio. Join us for a conversation on the extraordinary Read More
10×10 Book Club launches with Loung Ung’s “First They Killed My Father”
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March 21, 2012 To inaugurate the 10×10 Book Club, we bring you the work of bestselling writer and international activist Loung Ung. Her debut memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, is the perfect choice to kick things off! REad More about 10×10 book club!