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What My Khmer Father Couldn't Say: A Story of Survival and Presence

What My Khmer Father Couldn't Say: A Story of Survival and Presence

Phin, Som

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798250484206
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When fifty-year-old Kravann Sovan wakes up one morning, he's no longer in his San Jose condo. He's in Bakersfield, 1985-in his father's body.

Kravann has spent decades resenting his father's silence, his emotional distance, his absence even when he was in the room. But now he must live Boonsong's impossible life: every choice between food and rent, working the lettuce fields for minimum wage, raising five children in a cramped apartment, and carrying the weight of surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide. Every moment of bone-deep exhaustion teaches Kravann what his father could never say: that love sometimes looks like sacrifice, that survival requires everything you have, and that presence is the greatest gift of all.

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