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Loung Ung Book Readings in Cleveland and Boston

LOUNG — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:50:18 +0000

Wednesday, May 2, Woodmere, Ohio
@700PM, Barnes & Noble
28801 Chagrin Blvd
Woodmere, OH 44122

Friday, May 4^th, Boston, MA
@ 7:00PM, Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

LOUNG — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:44:43 +0000

Barnes & Noble, Author Event: Loung Ung, reads her new book, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing and Double Happiness; Wednesday May 02, 2012 7:00 PM

Barnes & Noble
28801 Chagrin Blvd
Woodmere, OH 44122
216-765-7520

LOUNG — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:42:18 +0000


	Barnes & Noble, Author Event Loung Ung, reads her new book, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing and Double Happiness Wednesday May 02, 2012 7:00 PM 28801 Chagrin Blvd Woodmere, OH 44122 216-765-7520 More about this event

Business is Cambodia’s salvation

LOUNG — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:16:27 +0000

Phnom Penh Post, Monday, 30 April 2012

Business is the most important activity for the Cambodian people. The government does not have the resources to support the 14.8 million people who live in this small, unique country and the multi-national corporations that come here are legally obligated to their shareholders to make profits.

So what’s available to help poor Cambodians improve their lives? Business. Read Full Article

Loung Ung Writes Home

LOUNG — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:12:29 +0000

Interview.com April 17, 2012
Fear follows us. It followed Loung Ung from the death-filled Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia to a hopeful new life in America. In her memoir Lulu In The Sky (Harper Perennial), Loung evocatively shares her journey from bitter, angry young girl lost in the child soldier camps of the Khmer, to rebellious but dreamy American adolescent, longing for the careless freedom of her friends.Read Full Article

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Loung Ung makes ‘Lulu in the Sky’ shimmer with renewal after the Cambodian killing fields

LOUNG — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:16:06 +0000

April 15, 2012
Cleveland Plain Dealer review of Lulu in the Sky

…The final book in her trilogy, “Lulu in the Sky,” is Ung’s account of forging a new life, painfully hammering past and present into one. Central to her story is Clevelander Mark Priemer, Ung’s college sweetheart at St. Michael’s in Vermont. A handsome, optimistic man, Priemer embodies the American belief that we hold our identity in our own hands. He sticks by her as she lurches through the decade after graduation, sometimes facing, more often denying, her trauma… Read Full Review

Happy Chaul Chnam Thmey Cambodian New Year!

LOUNG — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:02:39 +0000

2012 Cambodian New Year falls on Friday, April 13th. Perhaps the most important holiday in Cambodians, the celebrations last three days

Inspiration for Lulu in the Sky

LOUNG — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:09:46 +0000

Read about inspiration for Lulu in the Sky by author Loung Ung

Remnants of war still undermining mental health

LOUNG — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:05:12 +0000

Phnom Penh Post, April 10, 2012
A dearth of trained mental health workers, a history of conflict and a lack of coordination has resulted in a weak and fragmented mental th system, while survivors of trauma continue to seek explanations for the horrors they experienced or witnessed. Read Full Article

WCPN interview: Loung Ung: Writer, Survivor and Activist

LOUNG — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:41:06 +0000

WCPN: 10-year-old Loung Ung survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia. She fled the genocide that killed nearly two million people. But more than 20 of her relatives died including her parents and two siblings. We’ll meet with Ung – now grown up and living in Northeast Ohio. Join us for a conversation on the extraordinary courage of the human spirit. Listen to Interview, Originally aired 10/3/11