A MEMOIR OF SURVIVING CAMBODIA GENOCIDE AS A YOUNG BOY AGE AT 10 ESCAPTING ALONE TO A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA
PRAISES
“An engaging, open memoir of one child’s wartime experiences.”
“As heartbreaking as it is uplifting, Seng Ty’s story about surviving the Khmer Rouge is unforgettable.””
“….it’s sad, but so inspiring and don’t want to put down.”
“The Years of Zero—2018-2019 chosen by One Book Program at Bunker Hill Community College”
The Years of Zero - Coming of Age Under the Khmer Rouge is the first book written from a young boy point of view and a native Cambodia who survived his country’s reign of terror and felt compelled to speak of it. The book describes the account of a little boy trying to desperately to make sense of the nightmare exploding around him and he survived all alone as seven years old.
graphic novel version
Pyne Arts Middle School, Lowell MA
Genocide Workshop for Educators, Salem State University, Saken MA
school visits
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston MA
Lynn Public Schools, Lynn MA
Teacher Course Workshop Lowell MA
SENG TY was born in the Kampong Speu province of Cambodia, the son of a respected physician who taught him to value life, aspire to humility, and seek the good in people. He was thirteen when he made his way alone to a refugee camp in Thailand in 1981. His story was featured in TIME Magazine’s article “Children of War”, and was read by an American family in Amherst, Massachusetts, who adopted him a year later. Now he is a citizen of the United States, a husband, a father and a former educator in the Lowell, Massachusetts School System.
