Song For Cambodia
Posted: 2014/09/24 Filed under: Book Reviews, NonFiction | Tags: 2014, Arn Chorn-Pond, book review, Cambodia, childrens book, leisure, Michelle Lord, NonFiction, september Leave a commentLord, Michelle. A Song for Cambodia. New York: Lee and Low Books Inc., 2008.
Reason read: While I was reading Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields by Dith Pran I kept thinking about a high school mate of mine named Arn Chorn-Pond. From the day that I met him I knew he had a pretty horrific story to tell, but here’s what I remember most about my time with Arn: he was thoughtful and kind and warm. To talk to him you would never know of the atrocities he witnessed and suffered in 1975 as a small boy in Cambodia. We were not close in high school. We were not even what you would call friends, but there was an unspoken respect for his integrity and grace. This book, Song for Cambodia is a powerful message for children: music heals.
Even though this is a book for children, as I said before, it speaks volumes about how music can create beauty.
This is one of the last books I will read off the Challenge list.
