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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
In a Rocket Made of Ice: The Story of Wat Opot, a Visionary Community for Children Growing Up with AIDS

In a Rocket Made of Ice: The Story of Wat Opot, a Visionary Community for Children Growing Up with AIDS

Gutradt, Gail

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral SociologyIndia & South Asia

ISBN10: 0804172684
ISBN13: 9780804172684
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 23 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In 1997 Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic who served in Vietnam, returned to South East Asia offer his service . With Vandin San, a brilliant young Cambodian aid worker, he transformed Wat Opot, a haunted scrubland behind a ruined temple, into a place of healing and respite. Here children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS--the first generation of children to grow up with AIDS--could find a new family, and live outside of fear or judgment.

Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the hopeful stories of children saved and changed by this very special place; the story of a war veteran's redemption; and the story of the author's transformation in her contact with the powerful life force of Wat Opot.

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