title: Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
author:  Dana Hui Lim 
description: <i>"Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields</i><span>by Dana HuiLim is a very important book with much to teach us within its spellbinding beautifully crafted pages, deeply felt, very personal account of one of the darkest episodes in post WWII history." - <i>The Reading Life</i></span>
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  “Well, well, well,” the Reaper girl hissed. “If it isn’t Nike’s Champion,
  slinging a sword like she actually knows how to use it. I was hoping I might
  run into you here.”
  
  
    
  
  
  “Yeah, it’s me. Gwen Frost,” I snapped. “Nike’s Champion in the flesh. I know
  what you did to my mom.”
  
  
  The girl threw back her head and laughed. She just—laughed. Low, long, and
  loud. Like it was funny that she’d killed my mom in cold blood. Like it was
  the most hysterical thing ever that she and her Reaper friends had just done
  the same thing to a museum full of innocent people.
  
  
  “Well, I should certainly hope so,” she said. “Killing your weak, sniveling
  mother was the most fun I’ve had in ages.”
  
  
  Rage once again filled my heart, blocking out everything else. All my
  questions, all my worries, all my fears. There was only me and her and my
  desire for revenge, this burning, burning need I had to make her pay, to make
  her suffer for taking my mom away from me.
  
  
  With a roar, I leaped off 