cover image To Destroy You Is No Loss

To Destroy You Is No Loss

Joan D. Criddle. Anchor Books, $11.95 (291pp) ISBN 978-0-385-26628-4

With the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975, 15-year-old Teeda and 15 members of her upper-class family were among millions driven from Phnom Penh into the countryside. Now living in America, Teeda here recounts a terrifying, slavelike existence. PW called this ``a poignant testament to the human will to survive.'' (Sept.)