The plot gets interesting when grumpy Sopeap, also known as “The Cow”, shows up demanding the rent money. Sang Ly and Ki Lim decide it’s worth keeping the book for their son to enjoy even though they can’t read. One day while picking through trash, they come across a strange object (a book) and bring it home simply because the pictures inside are beautiful and colorful. Their home is a glorified teepee surrounded by a permanent smoky haze from the smoldering trash heap surrounding them and a stench that never disappears. Anything leftover is for food and medicine for Nisay. They earn money by scavenging all day, selling whatever scrap metal they collect in order to pay rent money to Sopeap, the Rent Collector. Ki Lim and Sang Ly live in a city waste dump with their sick young son, Nisay. It’s memorable and scenic, but for all the wrong reasons. Books take you to many magical and wonderfully-scenic, memorable places.Īuthor Camron Wright takes you to a stinking landfill named Stung Meanchey in Cambodia where people LIVE and WORK to survive.
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