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December 16, 2021

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Poverty, squalor and oppression cannot keep people from finding meaning and even happiness in the solace of the written word in this heartfelt story of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge purges. It is, in the end, a hopeful and inspiring book.
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