A Blessing over Ashes : The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother

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Summary: A book you can't put down
Review: This book is about a Cambodian boy that escapes from the Khmer Rouge and makes it to live with a wounderful family in Vermont. This family treated him like a member of their own flesh and blood. They don't really know what he went through. All they know was that he had a rough life. I think this book was worth reading. If you like books about survival this would be the book for you. I enjoyed this book and would read it again and again.

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Summary: Truly A Blessing
Review: This book is about a Cambodian refugee. It is not only an immigrant story, but a story of survival. Soeuth's journeys are astonishly amazing and how he copes with the struggles and trials he is forced to go through will make you wonder how any simple human being can live through them. The appreciation of your own life will start to set in and help you to realize no longer to ignore the hardships of others. Drinking from a pond in which there are half-dozen corpses in, and not knowing this, because you can not see in the night's dark sky, is only one of the simplestic trials Soeuth must go through. Not knowing whether his family is alive or dead is another. Soeuth is too afraid to find and write his poverty stricken parents, because he feels he does not have any money to support them. He forgets, and then discovers what family is truly about, loving one another. "Money or no money." I recommend this book to everyone, it is a real eye opener.

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Summary: A page turner!!
Review: To me "A Blessing Over Ashes" By Adam Fifield was about survival. All the children from Battambang city were kept in a camp by a group of men/kids called Angka. There were some leaders that were only 15 yrs old. Seouth has to learn to not starve to death while he is in the camp. They only get a scoop of rice and something to drink. While working in the field on day, Seouth sees water bugs and lizards, so he eats them. He has to get protein somehow. At the age 14 or 15, Seouth was put inot a foster family in America. The first family he lived with had a bunch of rules he had to follow. He didn't like it there, so one day he grabbed all of his clothes and went to live with his friend Puhn. A couple of days later, Mr. Silverstein came to Puhn's house and took Seouth to live with the Fifields. When he got there he didn't talk that much to them, he didn't talk at all. Then as he lived there longer he talked more. I liked this book because the story just grabbed me and I just kept reading and reading. I like books that do that, thye grab you. Also I like books about survival and journeys. If you like books about survival, memoirs, and books that grab you, then you would like this book a lot.