Sang Ly lives at Cambodia's city dump where survival is a daily struggle, but when she develops an unlikely friendship with the ill-tempered rent collector, Sopeap, who teaches her to read, Sang embarks on a life-changing journey to give her son, Nisay, a better life and future.
year: 2022
call number/section: 1000
subjects: poverty, juvenile fiction, ragpickers, books and reading, mother and child, families, fiction, family life, mother-child relationship, juvenile fiction / diversity & multicultural, juvenile fiction / people & places / asia, cambodia, juvenile fiction, fiction