The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir - Paperback
by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)
One Hmong family's harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.
Yang's award-winning memoir of her family's harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in Thailand and then, for many, to new homes in Minnesota.Kao Kalia Yang is a teacher, public speaker, and writer. Yang is the author of the award-winning book The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008) and the book The Song Poet (Metropolitan Books, 2016). She is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University's School of the Arts. Yang lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her family.
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