They have no running water, no electricity. To her, it’s not inconvenient, it’s just life. He has almost constant diarrhea, that Sang Ly must scrub off of him and off of their home every day.
This is a hard life, made harder by the fact that Nisay is a very sick little boy. In order to get money, Sang Ly and Ki Lim must pick through the trash in the dump looking for recyclables to sell. Their house has 3 walls and they use a canvas tarp for the 4th. They are lucky to have a nice house to live in. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman’s journey to save her son and another woman’s chance at redemption.Ĭathy’s review: Sang Ly lives with her husband Ki Lim and their son Nisay in the most unimaginable place for them to live, Stung Meanchey, a huge dump located in Cambodia. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money–a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Book Summary from Goodreads: Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia.
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