![]() ![]() ![]() The grouchy drunk Sopeap reluctantly agrees, because the book has sentimental value for her. Sang Ly believes that education (via reading) will help the family find a way out of Stung Meanchay. In exchange for the book, Sopeap Sin will teach Sang Ly how to read. The book leads to a bargain between Sang Ly and the rent collector, Sopeap Sin. But everything changes on the day the rent collector threatens them with eviction when Sang Ly finds a children’s book among the trash. Their son is constantly ill and the family often have to use their rent money to pay for medicine. ![]() Most of their money goes to pay the rent for their shack on the borders of the dump. Sang Ly and her husband, Ki Lim, eke out a living picking recyclables out of the garbage. Camron Wright’s uneven tale of redemption and education, The Rent Collector, is set in the very real garbage dump of Stung Meanchay, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ![]()
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