![]() ![]() The more Sang Ly learns, the more she wants to know. Though Sopeap is unreliable during the first lessons with Sang Ly, she eventually devotes more attention to her new pupil. After establishing several conditions, she finally agrees to teach Sang Ly, and waves the couple's rent. Known for her short temper, frequent drunkenness, and graceless spirit, Sopeap is initially resistant to Sang Ly's request. She hopes an education will someday allow her to escape Stung Meanchey. Discovering Sopeap is literate, Sang Ly devises a plan to learn to read and write from the old miserable woman. When the rent collector, Sopeap Sin, visits the family's home demanding payment, she is unexpectedly taken by Nisay's children's book. ![]() Struggling to support themselves foraging for junk in the dump, Sang Ly, and her husband Ki, attempt to heal their sick child, Nisay, while warding off violent and lawless gang members, and attempting to make their rent. ![]() Through the first-person narrative of Sang Ly, Wright explores the ways in which the acquisition of language alters or illuminates the most difficult of human circumstances. In The Rent Collector, Cameron Wright tells the story of a young family living in "the largest municipal waste dump in Cambodia" (5). ![]()
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