Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (2005) is a memoir written by a Cambodian-born American woman, Loung Ung.

It also tells of the experiences of her surviving family members in Cambodia during the ensuing warfare between Vietnamese troops and the Khmer Rouge.

He chose Loung to come with him because she was the youngest, ten years old upon leaving Cambodia; hence, she is the "lucky child.

Since her father was a senior military official, the Ung family was specifically targeted in a genocide known as the Killing Fields.

[3] Ung is now the national spokeswoman for an international anti-landmine organization, Vietnam Veterans of America’s Foundation for a Landmine Free World.