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Book cover for INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide: The Memoirs of Mac and Simone Leng

INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide: The Memoirs of Mac and Simone Leng by Frances T. Pilch

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The bombing of Cambodia by the United States during the Viet Nam War had played an important part in bringing the Khmer Rouge to power. Following the invasion of Cambodia by Viet Nam in 1979, ending the Khmer Rouge regime, the United ...more

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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