About the Author

Loung Ung was the National Spokesperson for the "Campaign for a Landmine Free World," a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for co-founding the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Ung lectures extensively, appears regularly in the media, and has made more than thirty trips back to Cambodia. She is also the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind and LuLu in the Sky.

Reviews

"A riveting memoir...an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore." - San Francisco Chronicle
"[Ung] tells her stories straightforwardly, vividly, and without any strenuous effort to explicate their importance, allowing the stories themselves to create their own impact." - New York Times
"A unique glimpse into America's "melting pot"--a melting pot born of indescribable suffering but brimming with irrepressible life." - Samantha Power, author of "A Problem from Hell" America and the Age of Genocide
"At once elegiac and clear-eyed, this moving volume is a tribute to the path not taken." - Vogue
"Both stories -- Loung's, told in her own voice, and Chou's, narrated in the third person -- are inherently fascinating and are recounted with a vividness and immediacy that make them even more so....Written with an engaging vigor and directness, Lucky Child is an unforgettable portrait of resilience and largeness of spirit." - Los Angeles Times
"Ung's writing is clear-headed, honest and compelling; much of what she describes, from the brutalities she and her family endured to the ways it steered her adult life, is deeply affecting." - Kirkus
"Loung Ung makes Lulu in the Sky shimmer with renewal after the Cambodian killing fields" - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"You can't help liking and admiring this young woman. . . . [A] lively, humorous account . . . when you arrive at the hard-earned happy ending, it's with a sigh of deep relief." - Washington Post