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Thien's grasp of threads is immediately disarming. The initial chapters invite you into a warm pool of confusion, of loss, of missing pieces. As the story progresses, as "Mei" recounts her childhood being ripped from her under the Khmer Rouge communism, Thien's true talents as a storyteller take hold. "Mei" alludes to the life that her family had before the end of the war, before the Khmer Rouge dismantles their city and steals her away from her possessions. But it is the lives they try to live
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