Rose Payne Christian

About The Author

Rose Payne Christian is a retired professor of biology at Hong Kong Baptist College and Belmont University and adjunct professor of anatomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned a Master of Arts in Botany from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Science in Human Anatomy from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. During her years in San Antonio, she was a member of a committee that worked to resettle over three hundred refugees after the fall of Southeast Asia, which included Sorady and her family. An accomplished singer and painter.

Books by Rose Payne Christian

The Mother Light

The Story of a Young Slave of the Khmer Rouge

By Rose Payne Christian and Sorady Nachin
The Mother Light is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman who survived enslavement by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the late 1970s.
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