In a rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot / Gail Gutradt with a foreword by Dr. Paul Farmer

Author: Gutradt, Gail
Additional Titles: Rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot and Among the children of Wat Opot
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition: First American edition.
Physical Description: xvii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

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Contents

Sanctuary -- Transformations -- Confusions -- Mysteries -- Departures -- Gratitude.

Summary

Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children's Community. Begun with just fifty dollars in the pocket of a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia's verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family. She gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of her transformation in trying to help them.
"The story of a woman who volunteers at an orphanage in Cambodia, set up by a Vietnam War vet for children with and/or orphaned by HIV/AIDS"--

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ISBN

9780385353472 (hbk.)
0385353472 (hbk.)
9780385353489 (ebk.)

Note

"Originally published in Japan, in different form, as In a rocket made of ice : the story of Wat Opat, a visionary community for children growing up with AIDS by Heian-kyo Media, Kyoto, in 2013"--Title page verso.

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