Luxagraf

a travelogue

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

cover image for A childhood survivor of Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime, Loung Ung’s memoir is rough and brutal but in the end hopeful about the world. As her site says, the book is about “the unnerving strength of a child.” Read it while I was in Cambodia, which made the impact a bit more real.

Death, War