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Linda Crew

    Este autor profundiza en los aspectos profundos y a menudo desafiantes de la experiencia humana, desde la navegación de crisis hasta las luchas personales con la adicción a medicamentos recetados. Inicialmente creando narrativas para lectores jóvenes, a menudo ambientadas en importantes contextos históricos, su trabajo ahora gira hacia temas universales de supervivencia y curación. El estilo del autor es incisivo y profundamente personal, ofreciendo a los lectores no solo una mirada sin concesiones a sus propias batallas, sino también una sensación de consuelo y posible redención. Su narrativa sincera sirve tanto como una historia de advertencia como un testimonio de la resiliencia del espíritu humano.

    Sundara
    Children of the River
    • Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?

      Children of the River1991
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