The Latehomecomer

A Hmong Family Memoir

Author: Kao Kalia Yang
ISBN: 9781566892087

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 recounts the harrowing story of her family's captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp.When she was six years old, Yang's family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challeng

Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publish Date: 2008

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / Military / Vietnam War, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA))