Full name: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Author: Chanrithy Him Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Memoirs, Non Fiction, Award winners, War/Military, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393322101 0393322106

In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Similar books: The Gate by Francois Bizot Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung Lucky Child by Loung Ung Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam The Lost Executioner by Nic Dunlop The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer The Railway Man by Eric Lomax Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren Not Even My Name by Thea Halo Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck