![]() ![]() Papa’s sister Tata and his mother, Grandmother Queen, arrived for the celebration. The girls’ nanny, Milk Mother, their gardener, Old Boy, and their maid, Om Bao, were helping prepare for the festivities. As the novel begins, the family was celebrating the Khmer New Year holiday with a lavish celebration, satisfied that the fighting in the countryside had come to an end. Raami’s only impediments were her difficulty walking, as she had survived polio as a young child, and her jealousy of her toddler sister, Radana, who did not have any physical problem. Her father Ayuravann Sisowath was a prince descended from a king her mother Aana was a beauty and Raami lived in a palace. ![]() Seven-year-old Raami was a privileged child in the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh in 1975. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Ratner. ![]()
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