Mystery of Father’s Death Revealed in Cambodian American Novel

Sometimes fiction can tackle trauma that is too painful to be spoken out loud. That was Cambodian American Variny Yim’s experience when she wrote her first novel, The Immigrant Princess. Inspired by her own family, the story is about three generations of women from the Cambodian royal family who tried to rebuild their lives in America. It was Yim’s father however, that became a focal point for her while writing the novel. "I believe I could not have written this book without the...

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