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Summary: A great book
Review: "I had six people in my family, there were my mom, my dad, my grandmother, my sister, my brother and me during the beginning of the war" "I had a fight with my little sister. I can't remember what the fight was about. The fight made my dad very angry so he sent me to the camp." This was in a essay that Seouth wrote for a high school assignment. His American Brother, Adam, reads it on their computer. The camp that Seouth went to as a six year old was a work camp that was made for 10 to 15 year olds. Because of his fathers decision to hand him over to the Khmer Rouge, Seouth was separated from his family, and because the war neared Seouth excaped from the camp and journeyed throughout Cambodia in search of his family. He fled to Thailand and then to America as a orphan. He ended up living and assimilating into American life with the family of the Author Adam Fifield. The remarkable story is told through the eyes of Adam and Seouth.
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Summary: A blesshing over ashes is a good book
Review: A blesshing over ashes was a good book. This was a story about a boy growing up in Vermont with a camboidian brother. The book was a good story and tought a lessen about meny things. For ex. this taught a lessen about taking things for granted, and not appreciating what one has. Adam Fifield is a good auther and will some day right a new book.
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Summary: A BOOK WORTH READING
Review: A Blessing Over Ashes is a touching story about a boy named Soeuth from Cambodia and his journey to America. It is a remarkable story of how Soeuth escapes from the Khmer Rouge and becomes brothers with Adam Fifield. Soeuths goes to High Scool with Adam. As Soeuths's life continues in America he thinks his family is dead in Cambodia. Which he finds out later is not true. A Blessing Over Ashes is a good book worth buying.
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Summary: description of feelings reflected
Review: A blessing over ashes is about the history of Cambodia, and many people's lifestyles being interrupted by the warring of the Angka soldiers, and, more specifically, about the life of one Cambodian, and his journey out of Cambodia, to America, and eventually, back to his native homeland. Now hearing that general statement about some content of the book, here are some feelings about the story I had when I read it. . . . ....... I was sickened and almost horrified when reading some of the senseless things that went on in Cambodia when Seouth was there. However, with this serious sense of relation came a serious sense of compation. Seouth was very brave and never gave up. I felt sad for him and his family, as well as every other Cambodian who was tortured, killed or pillaged at all. The fact that this could happen was mind boggling. His survival, he knows, depends souly on himself, as a refugee, an outsider, now in America. He works harder than most "natives" of America could ever think of, and spends his measly earnings on his family and relatives. This fact alone made me feel that Seouth had a lot of love in his heart, and a lot of support for his family and people's culture. Billl " RALPHY " Clinton
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Summary: A Blessing Over Ashes
Review: A Blessing Over Ashes, by Asam Fifeild, is a book about escaping and gaining. Seouth is a cambodian boy who escapes his old life, and gains a new one. Seouth's country is at war. His father was a very stricked man, so he gave him to the Kama Rhoug. They were fighting with the Vietnameise people. Seouth was six when he was sent to the camp to work. The book gave alot of detail about what Seouth endure. The book talks about journeys. All the journeys that he has to take. I like the book because it has a couple of journeys. It tells what he does to get away from Cambodia, to get away from home, and to get back to Cambodia. THey all seem to blend in one big journey. I like books about escaping and journeys. It really excites me to know that Seouth live very close to were I live, and use to fish were I have fished. So if you like books like books about survival and different journeys that take place in storeys, than I sugest A Blessing Over Ashes for you to read.
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Summary: the story of a cambodian coming to vermont to live
Review: a great book page turner a story of a cambodian going through life in work camps until all of a sudden one day he (soeuth) escaped because people started to disapear and he left to go to america where he lived with a family for a while but it just didn't work out then he moved in with the fifield family in vermont he loves living with them great book please read
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Summary: FROM A MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT NATIVE
Review: A remarkable story of a boy's life in Cambodia and journey to America. "A Blessing Over Ashes" is a touching story of two brothers struggling to get through teenage years together. Soeuth --the refugee--has had to escape the Khmer Rouge and the war that was going on in his country. He lost his family in the war, and thought they were dead. Soeuth came to America not knowing his last name or real age. Adam, the author and oldest son in the family, becomes friends with Soeuth and share the struggles of being in high school and the struggles they meet in life. Its a book worth buying and reading. A great read for all ages and a sad story about growing up in life and all the joys that come with it. It is a book that is well worth taking the time to read!
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Summary: FROM A MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT NATIVE
Review: A remarkable story of a boy's life in Cambodia and journey to America. "A Blessing Over Ashes" is a touching story of two brothers struggling to get through teenage years together. Soeuth --the refugee--has had to escape the Khmer Rouge and the war that was going on in his country. He lost his family in the war, and thought they were dead. Soeuth came to America not knowing his last name or real age. Adam, the author and oldest son in the family, becomes friends with Soeuth and share the struggles of being in high school and the struggles they meet in life. Its a book worth buying and reading. A great read for all ages and a sad story about growing up in life and all the joys that come with it. It is a book that is well worth taking the time to read!
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Summary: A Genuine Classic
Review: Adam Fifield charmed me from the very first page with this classic and compelling memoir. The initial chapters detailing his adopted brother Soeuth's early childhood in the Khmer Rouge camps are stunning, raw, and direct. As a very young boy, Soeuth was handed over by his father to the authorities and transported to the nightmarish world of the Cambodian work camps. Soeuth shows tremendous resourcefulness and courage when forced to fight for his daily survival. The story of his escape from the camps, his journey across the killing fields, and his eventual passage to the United States proves to be a gripping adventure. But Fifield offers something more than a simple re-telling of his brother's tremendous odyssey. It is through his earnest accounts of his own childhood in Vermont, and his attempts to understand and accept his new "unlikely brother", Soeuth, that Fifield displays much of his considerable wisdom. He writes of the foibles of his awkward youth with a generous and self-effacing wit--which proves to be one of the true gems of A Blessing Over Ashes. It is through several of the more humorous passages, in fact, that the author manages to convey matters of tremendous poignancy. A Blessing Over Ashes is a rare and delightful find. You won't go wrong with this one.
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Summary: An unflinching, wise book full of love and compassion
Review: Adam Fifield's rich prose is a pleasure, and his sense of narrative is elegantly gripping. I gobbled the whole book up in one sitting and wished it could have been even longer. His humane, sympathetic vision is the key to a book that manages to indict and embrace the thorny aspects of cross-culturalization at once. The unfolding of parallel childhoods is even-handed; he lets no one off the hook. There are pockets of unexpected humor and desolate poignancy going off like little landmines throughout the pages. This is a wonderful book abut the power of family and the horrors of our recent past.
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