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

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

Current price: $16.99
Publication Date: April 17th, 2012
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
ISBN:
9780062091918
Pages:
368
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Description

Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward towards happiness. After the violence of the Khmer Rouge and the difficult assimilation experience of a refugee, Loung’s daily struggle to keep darkness, anger, and depression at bay will finally find two unexpected allies: the empowering call of activism, and the redemptive power of love. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Loung’s journey to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother’s spirit; to a vocation that will literally allow her to heal the landscape of her birth; and to the transformative influence of a supportive marriage to a loving man.

About the Author

Loung Ung was the National Spokesperson for the “Campaign for a Landmine Free World,” a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for co-founding the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Ung lectures extensively, appears regularly in the media, and has made more than thirty trips back to Cambodia. She is also the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind and LuLu in the Sky.

Praise for Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness

“You can’t help liking and admiring this young woman. . . . [A] lively, humorous account . . . when you arrive at the hard-earned happy ending, it’s with a sigh of deep relief.” — Washington Post

“Loung Ung makes Lulu in the Sky shimmer with renewal after the Cambodian killing fields” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Ung’s writing is clear-headed, honest and compelling; much of what she describes, from the brutalities she and her family endured to the ways it steered her adult life, is deeply affecting.” — Kirkus