Y-Dang Troeung

A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocity. Born in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was—aged one—the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang became a literal...