Join Lattes and Lit book club for a discussion of Camron Wright’s novel The Rent Collector in the Murray Room on Lauinger Library’s fifth floor in mid-March!
Please fill out our poll to help us find a time to meet on March 12-13, 2025. You can also indicate on the form if you’re interested in helping facilitate the discussion.
About The Rent Collector
Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working.
Just when things seem at their worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.
The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption.