![]() ![]() Humorous, wise-guy fiction exerts a strong pull on me as well, hence When Pigs Fly and Getting Lucky. Little Mountain was the next novel I wrote, although it’s the third I’ve published. But what came out of Freedom Country was a better understanding of Cambodians’ plight and much-improved writing skills, thanks to many workshops and critique groups. Not having seen the country and my being a tyro at writing fiction pretty well sunk that ship. I did all the research I knew how to do, short of traveling to Cambodia myself. My first-ever and never-to-be-published novel, Freedom Country, was about a young Cambodian girl surviving the Khmer Rouge horrors and coming to the United States. My wife and I sponsored such a family and became well acquainted with some of the issues they and their host city faced. I used to live near the scene of the crime: Lowell, Massachusetts, where thousands of Cambodian refugees settled beginning in late 1979. ![]() It does have a Cambodian who becomes an American homicide cop and has to solve a crime that brings back haunting memories. Little Mountain has no humor and barely even has a mountain. ![]() Thanks for hosting the kickoff of my Little Mountain tour, Dani, and for all you do encouraging others on their tours.Īs much as I love to write humor, some books leave no place for it. ![]()
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