It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.