Title: Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
Author: Sichan Siv
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2009
352 pages
Siv’s memoir begins in his childhood; by the time of the Khmer Rouge takeover he was an adult. Thus, his memoir provides a different perspective from those of writers such as Loung Ung, whose stories of this period reflect a child’s perspective. I enjoyed reading about Siv’s trajectory from refugee to government official in the US. Of less reading pleasure was his jingoistic conservatism and Bush boosterism. I wonder how he would feel if, reading my hypothetical memoir, he read that I agreed with President X’s values of xenophobia and not spending US dollars on refugees; perhaps he’d know then how I felt when reading his praise of the Republican version of “family values” that exclude my family.
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