The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

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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 The united states. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her circle of relatives’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. Additionally it is 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 america throughout the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her circle of relatives’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was once born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp.

When she was once six years old, Yang’s circle of relatives immigrated to The united states, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have in spite of everything found a voice.

Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services and products. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Consult with her web site at www.kaokaliayang.com.

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