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Ho, Minfong. The stone goddess.


HO, Minfong. The stone goddess. (First Person Fiction.) Scholastic. 201 p. c2003.0-439-38198-3. $6.99. JS

To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, January 2003: First Person Fiction is a series about immigrant experiences, and Minfong Ho Minfong Ho (b. January 7, 1951) is an award-winning Chinese American writer. Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries.  tells of a Cambodian family surviving under the Khmer Rouge Khmer Rouge (kəmĕr` rzh), name given to native Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, began a large-scale insurgency against  in the 1970s and journeying to the refugee camps on the Thai border to come eventually to America. Minfong Ho is of Chinese heritage, and she and her husband worked in the camps in Thailand, where she met many refugees like Nakri, the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete.  of this novel. Nakri and her older sister are studying classical Cambodian dance, with their mother as their teacher, when the country falls This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article.  to the revolutionary Khmer Rouge. Such a family from the educated middle class is unacceptable to the new regime and they are forced to leave their home in the capital city and travel to the village of their grandparents grandparents nplabuelos mpl

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. Even there, they aren't safe: the father is taken prisoner and never heard from again, and the teenagers are sent to work camps far from their families. Starvation starvation, condition in which deprivation of food has forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive system.  and brutal oppression are prevalent. When the Vietnamese army invades Cambodia and restores some order, it is too late to save Nakri's sister, who has died in the camps. Leaving their country seems the only viable option. Nakri's story of dealing with American culture, adjusting to schools, food, and the cold weather, is told in 50 pages at the end of the novel. Nakri and her family are determined to preserve the classical dance of their people and bring that richness to America. Claire Rosser, KLIATT

J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers.

S--Recommended for senior high school students.
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Author:Rosser, Claire
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Date:Sep 1, 2005
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