![]() ![]() Luckily she did teach one person - the main character, Sang Ly. ![]() She was educated and supposed to be killed but her housemaid took her place and she lived. Sopeap was a character that had lived through this horrifying experience. I had never heard of the Khmer Rouge which was a mass killing of all the educated people in Cambodia. It just has nothing to do with learning to read. So to me, that set it up for them moving out of the dump and her son finally gets better! Sang Ly has a random dream about a healer so she takes he son there and he gets better. Sang Ly learns to read to make her son well again. Sang Ly, the main character, is the first to write down a story that has been passed down for generations and it gave me chills. The idea that the story of Cinderella, which is in almost all cultures, shows that stories of hope like that are so fundamental that it comes from somewhere deeper. The power of literature is beautiful throughout the story. There were lots of amazing quotes to highlight and talk about. The Rent Collector was a great book club book. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money-a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. ![]()
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