Isn’t that what every mother in the world wants? No matter whether you live in a dump in Cambodia or a mansion in California, all a mother wants is for her child to be happy and healthy. She thinks and feels like any mother in the world, with her focus on her son being healthy. Sang Ly is a wife, but most importantly a mother. She is thoughtful, intelligent, and has a will to improve her life. She is quite witty and had me laughing in the first chapter. The story is told from Sang Ly’s perspective and she is quite the storyteller. I figured it would be depressing and I couldn’t imagine how a story of people living in the dump was going to be much of a story to tell. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book.
The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman’s journey to save her son and another woman’s chance at redemption. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money–a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia.
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