Either the Beginning or the End of the World

For sixteen years, it's been just Sofie and her rugged fisherman father. Sofie keeps the books for her dad's business, works in their coastal New Hampshire town, runs cross country, and daydreams with her friend Rosa. When her father decides to take his boat south to find a better winter catch, he asks Sofie's estranged mother and grandmother to stay with her. Sofie is furious, bitter at her mother's desertion when she was young. Now she's forced to face her Cambodian roots through her grandmother's stories of the war-torn countryside, the ruthless Khmer Rouge, and the hardships of immigrant life?as well as heartbreaking acts of human devotion.