Variny Yim

Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday, October 13th at 7:00 p.m., as we welcome Author Variny Yim as she reads from and discusses her book The Immigrant Princess.

Book Description: When three generations of women from the Cambodian royal family live as immigrants in the U.S., they struggle to find meaning and relevance in a new country that challenges their traditions and forces them to build a new life. Career-driven Sophea Lim, the oldest granddaughter, is saddled with the cultural responsibility of taking care of her mother and grandmother. However, when she loses both a promotion and her American boyfriend, she blames it on her traditional Cambodian upbringing and starts a war in her close-knit family. Although Sophea has an ally in her younger sister Ravy, her mother and grandmother find her first-world complaints trivial compared to the real-world suffering of two-million Cambodians who perished at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge including her father. Turmoil erupts when Ravy encourages Sophea to move out of the house she shares with her mother and grandmother. Will Sophea shirk her responsibility to take care of her elders? Is her quest for independence worth hurting the two people she loves most?

As always, this in store event is free and open to the public.