Bones That Float, A Story of Adopting Cambodia
5,4,3,2,1….Launch!
Wild Heaven Press proudly announces the launch of Bones That Float, A Story of Adopting Cambodia by Kari Grady Grossman.
Read inside the dust jacket:
On March 24, 2001, American writer Kari Grady Grossman walked into a crowded orphanage outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and met her eight-month-old son. One of the first questions Kari asked was, “How did he get here?� The complex and, at times, heartwrenching answer is told in this magnificent book that encompasses Kari’s personal journey to adoption, Cambodia’s gruesome history of war and genocide, and the stories of two Cambodians—one who escaped the Khmer Rouge’s bloody reign and one who did not.
The interweaving stories grab your heartstrings and never let go. From the moment Kari realizes that she will never be an “earth momma� practicing prenatal yoga to years later, as Kari wends her way on the back of a moto-taxi through Phnom Penh’s smog-choked streets trying to make a difference in her son’s birth nation, you can’t read impassively. Bones That Float takes you into the Khmer Rouge jungle where boy soldiers force starving families to labor all day at gunpoint, and it brings you to modern-day Phnom Penh streets where foreign pedophiles purchase the innocence of preteen Cambodian girls.But ultimately Bones That Float—a Cambodian phrase for the sacred that rises above the suffering—is a tale of hope. Kari reminds us that our world is “one big family� and that we cannot—or dare not—turn our backs on people who suffer, in part because of our own country’s foreign policy missteps. To read Bones That Float is to open your heart to caring.
Go to www.BonesThatFloat.com to order pre-publication hardcover copies at a discount price of $20 (+tax & shipping). 25% of the proceeds benefit the
Friends of the Grady Grossman School, Cambodia.
A link to an eBook is available with each order.
Autographed hardcover copies will be sent in March. Regular price is $24.95 (+tax & shipping).
Follow Kari’s trip to Cambodia Jan. 23-Feb.4th right here to meet the students and teachers the book is benefiting;meet the monks praying for the Cardamom Mountain forest;meet the community leaders trying to stop the forest destruction, and help us figure out how to empower local families of the impoverished Souy hill tribe so the kids can stay in school.
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