A MEMOIR OF SURVIVING CAMBODIA GENOCIDE AS A YOUNG BOY AGE AT 10 ESCAPTING ALONE TO A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA

PRAISES

An engaging, open memoir of one child’s wartime experiences.
— -kIRKUS REVIEWS
As heartbreaking as it is uplifting, Seng Ty’s story about surviving the Khmer Rouge is unforgettable.”
— PATRICIA McCORMICK, Bestselling, Award Winning Author
….it’s sad, but so inspiring and don’t want to put down.
— BOSTON GLOBE
The Years of Zero—2018-2019 chosen by One Book Program at Bunker Hill Community College

The Years of Zero - Coming of Age Under the Khmer Rouge is the first book written from a young boy point of view and a native Cambodia who survived his country’s reign of terror and felt compelled to speak of it. The book describes the account of a little boy trying to desperately to make sense of the nightmare exploding around him and he survived all alone as seven years old.

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SENG TY was born in the Kampong Speu province of Cambodia, the son of a respected physician who taught him to value life, aspire to humility, and seek the good in people. He was thirteen when he made his way alone to a refugee camp in Thailand in 1981. His story was featured in TIME Magazine’s article “Children of War”, and was read by an American family in Amherst, Massachusetts, who adopted him a year later. Now he is a citizen of the United States, a husband, a father and a former educator in the Lowell, Massachusetts School System.  

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