I find it particularly interesting to read this memoir/family history of Hmong immigration to the U.S. at this particular time in history—where it’s all too easy for some to forget why many immigrants come to the United States and how we’re implicated in their needing to flee their homelands in the first place. In this beautifully written book, Kao Kalia Yang tells the story of her family’s journey from Laos to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to Minnesota. Though Yang was born in the […]
