Na Pho Refugee Camp, Thailand, 1988

Escaping The Tiger is set in Na Pho, and while the story itself is fiction, it was inspired by the experiences of the Manivong family, pictured here after they passed their exit interviews.

Author’s husband Troy, at age 19, is third from the right.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

                                                                                        ~Maya Angelou, Words of Hope and Courage