Reang began her journalism career here in Spokane, as a cultural reporter for The Spokesman-Review in 1996. “It was absolutely an incredible opportunity and a terrific job,” she said.

It's a theme through Reang's life and those of her many family members as they fled — or fell victim to — the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In the first half of "Ma and Me," Reang tells us stories ...

Reang said so to a crowd of people Wednesday night at the Montvale Event Center, as she discussed her memoir “Ma and Me,” with Spokesman-Review columnist and Spokane NAACP President Kiantha ...

Yet Reang's parents felt indebted to the U.S., in much the same way she felt indebted to them. We see how that concept of debt shaped Reang's life, ...

Putsata Reang, MCD, 400 pp., $28 More I’ve always believed that there’s a difference between being pushed away from something versus being pulled toward something that’s better for you.

Reang said the itinerary forced the issue, with her mother sort of forced to explain where they were going and what they would see. Still, Reang didn’t yet grasp from what her family had escaped.

Reang was an infant desperately clinging to life. Her mother held her daughter as she fought to escape Cambodia’s killing fields and survived, creating a new life in America.

putsata reang [VOICE BREAKING]: I can’t tell you the emotions, a lot of different emotions clanging around my heart. But what I can tell you is one of those emotions was relief, like, oh, my god.