Lulu in the Sky

by Ung, Loung

• ISBN13: 9780062091918
• ISBN10: 0062091913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-17
• Publisher: Perennial

Summary

Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward towards happiness. After the violence of the Khmer Rouge and the difficult assimilation experience of a refugee, Loung's daily struggle to keep darkness, anger, and depression at bay will finally find two unexpected allies: the empowering call of activism, and the redemptive power of love. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Loung's journey to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother's spirit; to a vocation that will literally allow her to heal the landscape of her birth; and to the transformative influence of a supportive marriage to a loving man.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xi
Prologue: Amah Chiem La Aw (Grandmother Who Possessed Good Blood) Kompong Speu, Cambodia, January 2000	p. 1
Love
Born of Kambu Cambodia, 1975-1979	p. 13
Crush Burlington, Vermont, August 1990	p. 29
Fish Sauce and Prahok Colchester, September 1990	p. 39
A Good Aunt Essex, Autumn 1990	p. 51
To Speak or Not to Speak? Winooski Park, Equinox 1990	p. 65
Of Worms and Walls Battery Park, October 1990	p. 77
No Rapunzel Shelburne, November 1990	p. 87
Klutz and Misdirection Manchester, December 1990	p. 97
Lulu in the Sky Champlain Mill, April 1991	p. 105
A Message in Ma Po Tofu Chapel of Saint Michael's, Spring 1991	p. 117
Cupid's Evil Twin Fort Ethan Allen, May 1991	p. 125
Healing
The Long and Winding Road Vermont, Maine, and Washington, D.C., 1993-1997	p. 133
The Girl in the Mirror Washington, D.C., May 1997	p. 149
Birthdays Capitol Hill, June 1997	p. 159
A New Path Dupont Circle, D.C. July 1997	p. 167'
Cow Teats and Five Hundred High School Boys Washington, D.C., September 1997	p. 181
Never Silent Scott Circle, D.C., April 1998	p. 199
Lifelines Washington, B.C., May 1998	p. 209
Exorcist of the Writing Kind D.C. and Cambodia, June 1998-February 1999	p. 217
Millennium Orlando, Florida, December 1999	p. 225
Double Happiness
Srok Khmer Kompong Speu, January 2000	p. 233
Khsae Family Line Kompong Speu, January 2000	p. 241
Fear of Landing Kompong Speu, January 2000	p. 249
Khmer Inheritance Oudong, February 2000	p. 259
Somewhere in Time Kompong Speu, February 2000	p. 269
The Hills of the Poisonous Trees Phnom Penh, February 2000	p. 277
A White Giant Barang in the Village Phnom Penh, March 2000	p. 287
A Gathering to Heal Lost Souls Siem Reap, March 2000	p. 307
Double Happiness Vermont, August 2002	p. 313
Acknowledgments	p. 323
Bibliography and Sources	p. 327
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