![]() McCormick rigorously reported the book with skills honed as a newspaper reporter. ( MORE: Season’s Readings: Best Summer Books) No craving for food anymore, no energy for it.” All these kid so hungry, but sometime they not able even to eat. Some with hair falling out. Some with fingernails scooped out like spoon. As the fictional 11-year-old Arn describes the plight of the children, “All have bellies swole up, like balloon. In forced labor camps, even the youngest children were forced to toil like animals. The book has already led to publishing buzz that McCormick, 56, may once again be a contender for a National Book Award.Īrn’s story, and the story of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia in the late 1970s, is a tale of human depravity and suffering so intense that it defies the Western imagination. It is a story of man’s inhumanity to man, through forced starvation, torture and murder. And her stunning new novel, Never Fall Down, is the real-life story of Arn Chorn Pond, who came of age in the Cambodia’s Killing Fields. In Sold, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a 13-year-old Nepali girl is sold into sexual slavery by her stepfather. ![]() In Cut, her first novel, the heroine is hospitalized for repeatedly harming herself. ![]() Follow harrowing being a character in a book by best-selling YA author Patricia McCormick. ![]()
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