“Children of the River” is a novel about a girl named Sundara who family live in Cambodia. During the time period of the Vietnam War. So they were very closed to the fighting, and with all this happening right next to them, their whole family agreed that they all hate Communism, which was what was spreading to their neighboring country North and South Vietnam. The North was for the spread of Communism while the South opposed the spread of Communism, so the North had China and the U.S.S.R. to back them while the South had America to back them up. But while all this was going on the Communist party invaded Cambodia to get a sneak attack and the Southern Vietnamese border. So they had to evacuate their family, but her mom, dad, brother, sister,
