Writer Vaddey Ratner is used to processing pain through fiction. Her best-selling debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was based on her experiences as little girl in Cambodia, where she and her ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Picking up many themes from her 2012 In the Shadow of the Banyan, Ratner’s captivating novel is a tragic odyssey of love, loss, and forgiveness in the wake of unspeakable horrors. In 1979 Suteera Aung ...
On the pages of “In the Shadow of the Banyan,” Vaddey Ratner’s gorgeous debut novel, a fragrant landscape coexists with the horrors of the Cambodian genocide, redemptive acts of kindness alongside ...
The Friends of The Boniuk Library will host a discussion of Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner. In this novel, a Cambodian child refuge, now an adult, returns to Phnom Pehn to discover the truth ...