Lucky Child

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
First edition
AuthorLoung Ung
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCambodian genocide
GenreMemoir
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
2005
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages288 p.
ISBN978-0-06-073395-7
Preceded byFirst They Killed My Father 
Followed byLulu in the Sky 

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (2005) is a memoir written by a Cambodian-born American woman, Loung Ung. Her previous memoir was First They Killed My Father. The memoir chronicles her adjustment to life in the U.S. after escaping the Cambodian genocide. It also tells of the experiences of her surviving family members in Cambodia during the ensuing warfare between Vietnamese troops and the Khmer Rouge. Lucky Child covers the period of 1980 until 2003.