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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoire

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoire

In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America.

But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others.

Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard.

Book Details

Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publish Date: April 11, 2017
ISBN: 9781566894784
Language: English

About the Author

Kao Kalia Yang is the author of The Song Poet and The Latehomecomer, which was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and received the 2009 Minnesota Book Award.

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