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Availability:In StockContributor:Bunkong TuonPublish date:2024-08-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Curbstone PressISBN-13:9780810147430ISBN-10:810147432UPC:9780810147430Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Biographical, Asian American & Pacific IslanderSize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCVBXNB65M
A powerful debut novel about war, immigration, and home

Celebrating the power of literature to rescue a life from despair, Koan Khmer is the story of Samnang Sok, an orphaned child survivor of the Cambodian genocide who sets out to make a new life in America alongside his extended family. Struggling to cope with the traumas of his past, Samnang feels alienated from his American peers at school and disconnected from his aunts, uncles, and cousins at home. Inspired by the books he discovers along the way, Samnang begins piecing together information about the past through stories told by elders, family photographs, and his own memories and dreams. Based loosely on Tuon's life, the novel traces Samnang's difficult journey toward an answer to the question, How does one rebuild a life after genocide and displacement and create a home?

Koan Khmer gives an unflinching voice to a distinctly Cambodian American sensibility. Tuon creates a refugee space that all Americans can visit in this bildungsroman that breathes life into cultural knowledge disrupted by loss and grief.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Curbstone PressISBN-13:9780810147430ISBN-10:810147432UPC:9780810147430Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Biographical, Asian American & Pacific IslanderSize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCVBXNB65M
BUNKONG TUON is a Cambodian American writer and poet. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections. His writings have appeared in Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, The American Journal of Poetry, Diode Poetry Journal, among others. Tuon is poetry editor of Cultural Daily. He teaches at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.
Publisher: Curbstone Press

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