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Rent collector book club free - What we're reading: The Rent Collector - such a great book!
Master Mentors. Ask for More. Hood Feminism. The Shimmering State. The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias. The Power of Broke. Astonish Me. The Secrets We Kept. The Shadow King. The 4 Disciplines of Execution. Along with the bars and ice cream, I whipped up a mango pineapple drink — diced mango and pineapple blended well.
Add a bit of Stevia and lots of water. We had a pretty nice evening discussing different aspects of the book. The characters, and what was real verse fiction. Since I had read the book on my phone — thank you Hoopla — I missed out on seeing photos of the family.
Luckily one lady had brought her copy and I got to connect even more with this family through their photos. Mix in the brown sugar Add coconut milk and whole eggs.
Stir until well combined. His website has interesting details on the family which inspired The Rent Collector , and a link to the documentary River of Victory , filmed by his son, which follows the journey of the real Sang Ly. His Facebook page also provides occasional updates on his characters. January 12 , Second Tuesday Book Club at 7 p. White Feminism. The Days of Afrekete. Punch Me Up to the Gods. The Between.
The Woman With the Blue Star. Master Mentors. Ask for More. Hood Feminism. The Shimmering State. The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias.
How had Sang Ly changed? When the story closes, Sang Ly and her family are still living at Stung Meanchey.
Are you satisfied with the ending, that they remain at the dump? Why or why not? Additional Questions 1. Lucky Fat is generally cheerful. Explain why or why not. Stung Meanchey offers boundaries.
The two main characters, Sang Ly and her husband live in Stung Meanchey, a garbage dump, and to survive they pick through truckloads of trash everyday, looking for things they can sell. As you can imagine, the dump is filthy and dangerous, and life is uncertain. Sounds grim, but surprisingly enough the message running through this story is one of hope, determination and redemption.
Sang Ly wants a better life for her son and she is convinced that the path to this dream is learning to read. As an avid reader, I loved this about. I loved that the author highlighted the power of reading. Recommend for book clubs and Historical Fiction fans. I feel the author did a grave disservice to the people in the story by adopting their voice to tell what is an important story.
I just could not get past the white male American voice pretending to be the voice of a female Cambodian trapped in a life at the dump. I see this book receives high ratings, but for those of you who also felt put off by the voice, hey, I'm with you on that. I've been wanting to read The Rent Collector for a while and was excited that it was our book club choice this month as well.
Once I started reading it, it was hard to put down. Sang Ly and her husband, Ki Lim, are just trying to survive day-to-day by collecting enough recyclables to pay for food and rent. Their young son, Nisay, is ill and Sang Ly is frustrated because he's fine while on medicine, but gets sick again when it runs out and they don't have enough money to keep buying medicine for him. The rent collector, Sopeap Sin, is a mean, drunk woman. When I first read the summary for this book, I was intrigued by the location of the story: the dump.
I wondered how that would work and what kind of life someone could have living at the dump. It was interesting to learn, too, that if they got evicted for not paying their rent, there were others waiting to move in and take their spot! One of my favorite conversations is between Sang Ly and her Auntie. Sang Ly's son, Nisay, is sick and she has a dream where she knows she needs to take him to the Healer who lives in her childhood province of Prey Veng. They pull enough money together to go and have some interesting experiences along the way.
Her uncle works for the government and built a new home so they stay in his old home while they're waiting to see the Healer. Sang Ly is talking to her aunt about her struggles and how she misses the province. Sang Ly says it can't be right if fate tries to keep her in the dump. Auntie says, "If it does, then so be it.
But remember, the province, though beautiful, has its own pockets of ugliness.
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