Black Rice

Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes. "You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ." Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.