Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.
Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?
MY REVIEW
Very good book. It is fiction but based on a real life war and customs of certain cultures. It made me glad to be me and live in this time. It's sad and makes you want to hope for the best when you know you'll only see the worst. To be torn away from everything you know and and everyone you love must be very hard and it was hard not to get emotional when reading parts of this book. If you have read this and didn't feel a thing there must be something wrong in your compassion department. Overall I say read it if you already haven't. I read this in jr. high and I enjoyed reading it again.
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