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In his first full-length collection, GRUEL, Bunkong Tuon documents the lives of Cambodian refugees and explores the poetic landscape of a Cambodian America. Written tenderly, with honesty, intelligence, and occasional humor, GRUEL is populated by survivors such as a boy who loses his mother to the Khmer Rouge regime, a grandmother who risks her life to steal a few grains of rice for her grandson, an uncle who is beaten by Thai military police for night fishing outside a refugee camp, an aunt who leaves the East Coast to buy a donut shop in California, a father who re-experiences the traumas of the Cambodian Genocide, a young man who discovers Charles Bukowski in a Long Beach public library, a professor who teaches about the horrors of war to college students at a private college in Upstate New York, to name a few. It's a book about memories, ghosts and haunting, personal loss and historical traumas, losing and finding home, discovery and self-invention; above all, it's a book about love, sacrifice, and hope.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Gruel
• Author: Bunkong Tuon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130
• EAN: 9781630450069
• ISBN: 1630450065
• ID: 12430069
• Publisher: NYQ Books
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 2015

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