Soon after her father was killed, Ung's mother decided that the family would survive only if she sent her young children off on their own. Ung ended up in a camp for orphaned kids, where she was trained as a soldier. Against long odds, Ung was finally reunited with some of her siblings and fled the country, eventually finding a new home in Vermont. She went on to college, where she obtained a degree in political science. But the ghosts were always there, periodically surfacing to inflict crippling bouts of depression.
Amnesia is really hard to get.
But I wanted them gone gone gone. They Killed My Father . They didn't take my body, and I didn't want them to take my mind. Still, writing the book proved harder than she had imagined. But it was very difficult.