The whole experience felt inauthentic.Īt the very end when Sang Ly gives her speech to the assembled masses, I was so disappointed in her 'fable.' For most of the people there, it would have meant nothing. I felt like I was reading the words of an outsider, somebody trying to Americanize what should have been a Cambodian story. The voice/tone of this book was so WRONG. He is the proud father of four children, all girls but three. His newest book, In Times of Rain and War releases in early 2021.Ĭamron lives with his wife, Alicyn, just south of Salt Lake City at the base of the Wasatch Mountains. The Orphan Keeper won Book of the Year, Gold accolades in Multicultural Fiction from Foreword Reviews, and was winner of Best General Fiction from the Whitney Awards. His next book, The Rent Collector, won Best Novel of the Year from the Whitney Awards and was a nominee for the prestigious International DUBLIN Literary Award. Letters for Emily has been published in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and China. His first book, Letters for Emily, was a Readers Choice Award winner, as well as a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild. He has owned several successful retail stores in addition to working with his wife in the fashion industry, designing for the McCall Pattern Company in New York.Ĭamron began writing to get out of attending MBA school at the time, and it proved the better decision.

He has a master’s degree in Writing and Public Relations from Westminster College. Camron Wright was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The rent collector book