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Theary Seng, J.D., born in 1971, is a young Cambodian-American lawyer, who experienced the full horror of the Pol Pot regime (1975-1979) while growing up in her native Cambodia. Seng was just a toddler when they killed her father. In prison shortly after, she fell asleep in her mother’s arms and woke to find her gone. She has written about her experiences in the UK bestselling memoir, Daughter of The Killing Fields.
In this compelling, clear-headed memoir, she exhibits all the courage and resilient street smarts of a true survivor while relating the story of almost incomprehensible suffering and loss. Daughter Of The Killing Fields tells how Seng spent her early years being passed from one set of relatives to another, amid a backdrop of soldiers, landmines, inadequate refugee camps and always death. ‘Life,’ she found ‘is just a breath’.
Often separated and fearing each other dead for months at a time, Seng tells the nail-biting stories of how she, her brothers, aunts, uncles and grandparents survived. Leaving Cambodia aged six to start a new life in the West, she and her four brothers have excelled in their new adoped country. Seng attended Valley Christian High School in Cerritos, California and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She received her law degree, J.D., from the University of Michigan Law School and is a member of the New York Bar.
In 2004, Seng moved back to work in Cambodia as a lawyer. This powerful memoir begins and ends 23 years later as she finds a way to confront the man she holds ‘accountable for the death of my parents, for the blood of 1.7 million others’.
