Imagining America: Paul Thai's Journey from the Killing Fields of Cambodia to Freedom in the U.S.A.
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557783268 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joann Raskin said Five Stars. amazing book
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This book is a story of the day-to-day struggles of an immigrant family and the small, quiet victories and equally small, quiet failures in their attempts to become Americans and yet retain much of their Cambodian culture. From Library Journal Fiffer has written a remarkable account of Paul Thai and his family who survived the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia and traveled to Dallas, Texas to find "freedom and education." Their story has two foci. The second is their struggles to make a new life in an unfriendly and biased American community. There are no great heroes in this tale. It is an honest and often brutal book. The first is their miserable existence under the Pol Pot regime and their harro