Socially Conscious Book Club at The Drury N4 Cafe in Hackney (near Manor House)

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For our first Socially Conscious Book Club meeting, we've chosen a book about hope in the face of adversity, and about how humans deal with deprivation in all dimensions of life.

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (288 pages) is a fiction novel based on real-life characters and set in Cambodia against the backdrop of the political oppression of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.

Ki Lim and his wife, Sang Ly, live at Stung Meachey, the largest garbage dump in Cambodia, located in the city of Phnom Penh.

Just when things seem worse, Sang Ly learns a secret about the rent collector. A secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.

How did a revolution that claimed to aim at removing classes from society end up with starvation and death and how do the characters deal with this scenario?

What should have changed?

What gives them hope? What gives us hope in our societies conscious of class and individualistic?

Join us for an open discussion about this book while sipping a cup of coffee or tea.

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