When visiting the temples of Angkor you will come across people selling books, pictures and tourist tat. Some of it is very good and other bits are less interesting.
I was mooching about and seeing what was available a young Cambodian fellow offered me this book to buy.
It makes for stark reading as it chronicles the life of a family, their demise and quest to survive against the unrelenting odds.
Perhaps it’s not the sort of thing you might choose. But take a look, if you’re having a bad day, someone else had it really really bad.
Here is the Amazon link.