Latehomecomer A Hmong Family Memoir

Name: Latehomecomer A Hmong Family Memoir
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ISBN: 9781566892087

ISBN-10: 1566892082

ISBN-13: 9781566892087

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kao Kalia Yang

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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. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Seeking Refuge


People of the Sky



A Walk in the Jungle



Enemy Camp



Refugees


The Little Girl With the Dimples



Ban Vinai Refugee Camp



The Second Leaving



Phanat Nikhom Transition Camp to America



A Return to the Clouds


The American Years



Before the Babies



Coming of the Son



The Haunted Section-8 House



Our Moldy House


The Latehomecomer



When the Tiger Comes



Preparations



Good-bye to Grandma



Walking Back Alone


Epilogue


Homong in America