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Joe Samuel “Sam” Starnes is the coauthor of Leth Oun's life story, A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, published in February 2023 by Temple University Press. Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel, published in 2015, is his third novel. His first novel, Calling, was published in 2005, and was reissued in 2014 as an e-book by Mysterious Press.com/Open Road. NewSouth Books published his novel Fall Line in November 2011, and it was selected to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Best of the South” list. He has had journalism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and various magazines, as well as essays, short stories, and poems in literary journals. He holds a ba ...more

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Philadelphia Inquirer: 'A Remarkable Life'

I was excited to hear today's Philadelphia Inquirer landing on my lawn this morning as it featured a full page story about Leth Oun's "remarkable life," as writer Rita Giordano describes it.
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Joe Starnes liked Kevin Catalano's review of A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service: "This is a harrowing and inspiring memoir of a remarkable man. Beautifully, but unsentimentally written, you appreciate the earthly miracle of someone who not only survived unimaginable tragedy, but thrived in a way so few can and do."
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Joe Starnes liked Ken Dowell's review of A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service: "In 1976, Leth Oun is a 10-year-old working in what amounted to a slave labor camp in the Killing Fields of Cambodia. In 2012, Leth Oun is part of the uniformed Secret Service detail traveling with President Obama on his visit to Cambodia. This book i" Read more of this review »
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