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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    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
The Rent Collector

The Rent Collector

Wright, Camron

Hardcover

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 1609071220
ISBN13: 9781609071226
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: Sep 1 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Benjamin Franklin Award, IndieFab awards, Utah Book Award, Utah Book Award
Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not really working. Just when things seem most bleak, Sang Ly learns a secret about the hated, ill-tempered woman, the the rent collector-she can read! Reluctantly she agrees to teach Sang Ly and does so with the same harshness she applied to her collection duties until they both learn how literacy has the power to instill hope and transcend circumstance.

Based on a true story, set in the abject poverty of Cambodia against the backdrop of political oppression and the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.

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