Moni is Sundara’s constant friend and supporter throughout the course of the novel. A fellow Khmer immigrant, she is a round faced (Crew, 53) and resilient young woman in her early twenties. Throughout the book, Moni is very grateful to be living in America with a steady income and food source. Though Moni had to leave her baby behind in Cambodia with her parents, she still finds joy in every day life, and even ends up remarrying a fellow Khmer man in Oregon. Later on in the book, it is revealed that Moni is the second wife of her previous husband in Cambodia. She then divorces him (he already has a family of his own) to marry her new love in America. Moni is like an older sister to Sundara, she insists on talking to Sundara when she goes through hard times such as when Sundara and her aunt had a big disagreement (Crew 175). Moni plays a different role from Sundara’s other friends in America because she is of the same cultural background and customs, and therefore understands Sundara’s dilemmas over the cultural clashes between Cambodia and America (ex. Dating boys).