The Latehomecomer
A Hmong Family Memoir
Published on 20. March 2017
312 pages
978-1-56689-479-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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05/2017
Coffee House Press
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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.
Content
- Cover
- More praise for The Latehomecomer
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List Of Illustrations
- PROLOGUE
- Seeking Refuge
- PART I: People of the Sky
- CHAPTER 1: A Walk in the Jungle
- CHAPTER 2: Enemy Camp
- CHAPTER 3: Refugees
- PART II: The Little Girl with the Dimples
- CHAPTER 4: Ban Vinai Refugee Camp
- CHAPTER 5: The Second Leaving
- CHAPTER 6: Phanat Nikhom Transition Camp to America
- CHAPTER 7: A Return to the Clouds
- PART III: The American Years
- CHAPTER 8: Before the Babies
- CHAPTER 9: Coming of the Son
- CHAPTER 10: The Haunted Section-8 House
- CHAPTER 11: Our Moldy House
- PART IV: The Latehomecomer
- CHAPTER 12: When the Tiger Comes
- CHAPTER 13: Preparations
- CHAPTER 14: Good-bye to Grandma
- CHAPTER 15: Walking Back Alone
- EPILOGUE
- Hmong in America
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Guide: Discussion Questions and an Interview with Kao Kalia Yang
- Coffee House Press
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press
