Khmer Rouge Survivor Finds Love and Healing

Like many people who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime, Loung Ung has to deal with the memories of the horrors that had happened to her and her family.

But instead of keeping it inside, Loung Ung found a channel to heal by writing books. She has written not one but three books. In her first book, "First they Killed my Father" Loung says she wants to tell her readers "what it took to survive wars." In her second book, "Lucky Child" she tells the story of growing up in America. Speaking to VOA Khmer in a recent interview, Ung said in her third book, "Lulu in the Sky", she wants to "tell the story about culture and the vibrancy of the Khmer history."We, as Khmer, are working to survive and we are claiming our laughter, our family and our culture. So it's a happy book in a sense that my family and I are reunited and I was able to find love, healing, and my reconnection to Cambodia." "Lulu in the Sky" was published on April 17, 2012. Loung says she chose the date to remember "the lives lost" and "to claim the lives that are still here."