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Author: Katya Cengel
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc
ISBN: 9781640120341
ISBN 10: 1640120343
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century--the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees, political asylum, cultural assimilation, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book. --Melvin Claxton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-- (03/02/2018) A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved. --Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom-- (03/02/2018) An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees' plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled, you can't help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens. --Jennifer Lau, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge-- (03/02/2018) Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel's painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats. --Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution-- (03/02/2018)
A timely examination of the issue of deportation of Cambodian refugees forty years after their resettlement in the United States. . . . Cengel's book shows there are no easy answers as families say goodbye to their sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers who are forced to return to a Cambodia that some of them never knew or that others hoped never to see again. --John Schidlovsky, Rumpus-- (09/21/2018) In Exiled, Katya Cengel presents in unsparing detail the lives of four Cambodian families facing the deportation of loved ones. At the center of the story is San, a woman in her 70s, and her daughter Sithy, who, after being jailed for drug possession, confronts--with a mixture of trepidation, pragmatism, delusion, and humor--the prospect of being forcibly removed from the American life she has made. Cengel's book focuses entirely on the experiences of the Cambodian-American community, but it speaks more broadly to the current debate over the wider immigration crisis. --Martin de Bourmont, Foreign Policy-- (09/12/2018) Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel's painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats. --Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution-- (03/02/2018) A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved. --Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom-- (03/02/2018) An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees' plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled, you can't help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens. --Jennifer Lau, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge-- (03/02/2018) A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century--the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees, political asylum, cultural assimilation, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book. --Melvin Claxton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-- (03/02/2018)
A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-Americans families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved. --Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom--Helen Thorpe (03/02/2018) An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees' plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled, you can't help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens. --Jennifer Lau, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge--Jennifer Lau (03/02/2018) Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel's painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats. --Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution--Elizabeth Becker (03/02/2018) A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century--the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees, political asylum, cultural assimilation, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book. --Melvin Claxton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist--Melvin Claxton (03/02/2018)
A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved. --Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom-- (03/02/2018) An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees' plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled, you can't help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens. --Jennifer Lau, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge-- (03/02/2018) Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel's painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats. --Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution-- (03/02/2018) A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century--the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees, political asylum, cultural assimilation, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book. --Melvin Claxton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-- (03/02/2018)
Author Information
Katya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo, California, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the author of From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (Potomac Books, 2023) and Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska, 2012).
