Review: "Alive in the Killing Fields: The True Story of Nawuth Keat, a Khmer Rouge Survivor,&qu

Wow. This is a powerful story about a young Cambodian boy whose family was murdered in front of him by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. He and his remaining family members were forced into slave labor by the Khmer Rouge (AKA Red Communists) with the fear of being murdered or starved every day of their lives. He suffered horrible atrocities including sleeping on the bones of the dead, skin infections from always being on wet surfaces, intestinal blockages from eating non-edible rice chaff, getting shot three times and living to tell about it, and walking thousands of miles to gain his freedom. There is a lot of violence and hard scenes to read in this book, but it is written with middle-grade readers in mind.

Mrs. Denney's Rating: ***1/2

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