https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Like-Peacock-Koel-Bird/dp/1497514851
A seven year old child is sent off by her mother with a strange man,
because she cannot feed her any more, to make a living in Thailand and
send money home to Burma. A U.S. based computer security expert goes to
give classes in Chiangmai, Northern Thailand and gets the surprise of
his life.
Based on real life stories narrated to me by social workers and others--fictionalized of course.
kmk
5-3-2019
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
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