When Broken Glass Floats

Chanrithy Him's memoir recounts the destruction of her middle-class Cambodian family under the Khmer Rouge regime, enduring forced labour, famine and successive devastating losses throughout the late 1970s. Told through the eyes of a child who survived, the book offers an intimate, quietly devastating testament to genocide, resilience and the enduring search for meaning after catastrophic loss.

ISBN 9780393322101 · W.W. Norton · 2000