The Mother Light: The Story of a Young Slave of the Khmer Rouge

The Mother Light is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman who survived enslavement by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the late 1970s.

The Cambodian Holocaust was one of the most horrific chapters in the history of humankind. The Mother Light is the true story of a young woman who was a slave under the ruthless Pol Pot Regime for all four years of the genocide and survived. Her immeasurable suffering—displacement, starvation, disease, forced manual labor, and the agony o...