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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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After Cambodia, There Was Us: A Mother-Daughter Story Across Time

After Cambodia, There Was Us: A Mother-Daughter Story Across Time

Phin, Som

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798245188492
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A haunting story of survival, sacrifice, and the unbridgeable distance between mothers and daughters-until it's almost too late.

Sophea Khun has spent thirty-four years running from her mother's donut shop, from the smell of fryer oil, from the shame of being the daughter of a refugee. At forty-three, she's a successful immigration lawyer living a life as far from Cambodia Town as possible. But when she's forced to attend her mother's seventy-fourth birthday party, one argument and one slap send her car skidding off a rain-slicked highway. When she wakes, she's not in a hospital-she's in Long Beach in 1991, living in her mother's body. For two years, Sophea experiences her mother's impossible life: arriving in America with five children, no English, and no money. Working eighteen-hour days. Learning to make donuts at 3 AM with hands that burn. Building a business with four other refugee women who pool fifty dollars a month because together, they might survive what would destroy them alone.

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