Barb asked Camron Wright:

Where did The Rent Collector come from? It is my all time favorite book!! I give it to people in book swaps, use it for book club reading, and I talk about it a lot. This book is one of the hardest hitting books I’ve ever read.

Camron Wright The Rent Collector was inspired by a documentary called River of Victory that my son shot in the garbage dump in Cambodia. The fictional part of the story—the reading and literature side—is a topic that I’ve been intrigued with for years, the notion that common themes tend to repeat over and over again in classical literature (such as the Cinderella story). When Sang Ly’s story came along (via the documentary), it felt like the perfect opportunity to weave into the themes of reading and literature that I’d been studying for years. All said, thank you for your kind words. They are sincerely appreciated.

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