Savanrith “Savan” Kong writes from inside the transitions he covers. Laid Off and Lost turned a year of unemployment and 29 interviews into a practical guide for identity after a layoff. Right-Sized: A Corporate Jargon Coloring Book takes a lighter, satirical turn at the same material. And his next book, Halfway Light, moves the lens to his own family — three generations carrying the Khmer Rouge genocide in silence, and what it costs to finally speak it.
Titles are temporary. Identity is not.
The whole truth about what happens when the career ends and nobody talks about it: the identity crisis, the isolation, and the process of clarifying what you’re actually trying to rebuild.
The identity crisis, the isolation, and the process of rebuilding after a layoff.
Learn more →Tracing his family’s survival of the Khmer Rouge genocide, their resettlement in America, and the silence passed down between generations.
Learn more →“They didn’t talk about Cambodia because they’d once survived by not talking about Cambodia.”— Halfway Light, Prologue
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