The Road of Lost Innocence
The story of a Cambodian heroine
by Somaly Mam
Recommended by Alice Walker and Aileen Lee
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hopeby a woman named to Time magazines list of the 100 most influential people in the world Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up th...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
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Aileen Lee
“I couldn?t sleep after reading this book. I felt a duty to read it, however, and others like it, to know without forgetting, that for countries devastated by war, often wars ?we? cause, or extend by carpet bombing or laying of land mines, the suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends. | I couldn’t sleep after reading this book. I felt a duty to read it, however, and others like it, to know without forgetting, that for countries devastated by war, often wars “we” cause, or extend by carpet bombing or laying of land mines, the suffering, usually for the most vulnerable, never ends.”
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