Monday, July 18, 2005
Children of the River by Linda Crew
In Children of the River Sundara is a young woman who fled Cambodia and journeyed to America. She had been sent from her parents' house to help her Aunt with a new baby (and to stay safer) when the Khmer Rouge army arrived in her Aunt's town. The family scrambled onto a ship and made their long tortuous way to sponsonship in the US.
Sundara is part of three worlds: the American teen world of school and boys, the traditional Cambodian family life of hard work and gender restriction, and the silent guilt ridden world that ties her soul to Cambodia. She works hard to keep the parts of her life separate but Johnathan, a local boy, and the stream of refugees still coming from Cambodia start to stir the separate parts together. Sundara wishes that the parts would mix smoothly but instead an explosian may happen.
Sundara is part of three worlds: the American teen world of school and boys, the traditional Cambodian family life of hard work and gender restriction, and the silent guilt ridden world that ties her soul to Cambodia. She works hard to keep the parts of her life separate but Johnathan, a local boy, and the stream of refugees still coming from Cambodia start to stir the separate parts together. Sundara wishes that the parts would mix smoothly but instead an explosian may happen.
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