Author: camronwright

Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not really working. Just when things seem most bleak, Sang Ly learns a secret about the … about the hated, ill-tempered woman, the “the rent collector”-she can read!  Reluctantly she agrees to teach Sang Ly and does so with the same harshness she applied to her collection…