THE YEAR OF ZERO
- “An engaging, open memoir of one child’s wartime experiences.” —Kirkus Reviews
- The 2019 Book Chosen by Bunker Hill Community College
SENG TY
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 an educator in the Lowell, MA School System.
SPEAKING
Speaking at The Sharing Foundation Community Event in Concord, Massachusetts
Speaking to honors students reading The Years of Zero
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Middle school students reading The Years of Zero as part of their unit on memoir
Seng Ty- Speaking engagement to students in history class
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Speaking to student leaders at Bunker Hill Community College
Seng Ty- Speaking and Q&A to all 8th Graders read The Year of zero
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One Book Program at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts A Conversation with Seng Ty , Educator and Author of The Years of zero
The One Book program engages our college community in a dialogue about a common text that addresses a current issue. Students, faculty and staff share the experience of reading a text and examining its effects upon our community. Faculty who incorporate the text into their curriculum receive copies for their students. Programming is provided throug ...