Description
An NEA Big Read Selection
"This is the best account of the Hmong experience I've ever read--powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable."--Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
"A narrative packed with the stuff of life." --Entertainment Weekly
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.
Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/11/2017
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781566894784
ISBN10: 1566894786
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
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. Kao Kalia lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her family.