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The Bookies will meet to discuss In The Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (kmoellering)

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In The 'Shadow' Of Death, Stories Survive

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Vaddey Ratner was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. In 1981 she arrived in the United States as a refugee not knowing English and ultimately went on to graduate summa cum laude from Cornell University. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.

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