Reading order
Daughter of Cambodia reading order
- First They Killed My Father2000
- Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind2005
- Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness2012
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Start withFirst They Killed My Father
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Publication order
3 volumes2000–2012Completed
- Loung Ung’s three memoirs.
- First They Killed My Father, one of the highest rated memoirs on this site, tells how she was five when the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975 and her family was driven into the countryside, where her parents and two sisters died and she was trained as a child soldier; it was filmed by Angelina Jolie.
- Lucky Child follows her new life in Vermont alongside the sister who stayed behind; Lulu in the Sky, her adult years.
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Frequently asked questions
Which Daughter of Cambodia book is the longest?
“Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness” is the longest at 330 pages; the shortest is “First They Killed My Father” with 256 pages.