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Loung Ung: Burlington VT reading of Lulu In The Sky

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Lulu In The Sky: A Daughter Of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, And Double Happiness
Author Event
Saturday June 09, 2012 3:00 PM,
Barnes & Noble

Burlington 102 Dorset Street
S. Burlington, VT 05403,
802-864-8001

Somaly Mam: Controversial activist fights SEAsian sex trade

By Cat Barton (AFP) – 11 hours ago 

HANOI — Sold into a brothel as a child, Cambodian activist Somaly Mam has become one of the most recognisable, glamorous and controversial faces of the global anti-sex slavery movement.

The quirky, energetic campaigner boasts a string of celebrity supporters and has been named a CNN hero of the year, but she is as divisive among anti-trafficking activists as she is beloved by the international press. Read Full Story

Loung Ung Book Readings in Cleveland and Boston

Wednesday, May 2, Woodmere, Ohio

@700PM, Barnes & Noble

28801 Chagrin Blvd

Woodmere, OH 44122

Friday, May 4th, Boston, MA

@ 7:00PM, Harvard Book Store

1256 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Barnes & Noble, Author Event: Loung Ung, reads her new bo...

Barnes & Noble, Author Event: Loung Ung, reads her new book, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing and Double Happiness; Wednesday May 02, 2012 7:00 PM
 

Barnes & Noble

28801 Chagrin Blvd

Woodmere, OH 44122

216-765-7520

Barnes & Noble, Author EventLoung Ung, rea...

 

 









Barnes & Noble, Author Event
Loung Ung, reads her new book, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing and Double Happiness
Wednesday May 02, 2012 7:00 PM

28801 Chagrin Blvd

Woodmere, OH 44122

216-765-7520

More about this event

Business is Cambodia’s salvation

Phnom Penh Post, Monday, 30 April 2012

Business is the most important activity for the Cambodian people. The government does not have the resources to support the 14.8 million people who live in this small, unique country and the multi-national corporations that come here are legally obligated to their shareholders to make profits.

So what’s available to help poor Cambodians improve their lives? Business. Read Full Article

Loung Ung Writes Home

Interview.com April 17, 2012

Fear follows us. It followed Loung Ung from the death-filled Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia to a hopeful new life in America. In her memoir Lulu In The Sky (Harper Perennial), Loung evocatively shares her journey from bitter, angry young girl lost in the child soldier camps of the Khmer, to rebellious but dreamy American adolescent, longing for the careless freedom of her friends.Read Full Article

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Loung Ung makes ‘Lulu in the Sky’ shimmer with renewal after the Cambodian killing fields

April 15, 2012

Cleveland Plain Dealer review of Lulu in the Sky

…The final book in her trilogy, “Lulu in the Sky,” is Ung’s account of forging a new life, painfully hammering past and present into one. Central to her story is Clevelander Mark Priemer, Ung’s college sweetheart at St. Michael’s in Vermont. A handsome, optimistic man, Priemer embodies the American belief that we hold our identity in our own hands. He sticks by her as she lurches through the decade after graduation, sometimes facing, more often denying, her trauma… Read Full Review

Happy Chaul Chnam Thmey Cambodian New Year!

2012 Cambodian New Year falls on Friday, April 13th. Perhaps the most important holiday in Cambodians, the celebrations last three days

Inspiration for Lulu in the Sky

Read about inspiration for Lulu in the Sky by author Loung Ung