The latehomecomer [sound recording] : a Hmong family memoir / Kao Kalia Yang.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: 794449 | HighBridge Co.Publication details: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge Co., p2011.Description: 8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 9781611744491
- 1611744490
- Late homecomer
- Late home comer
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Adult Audiobook
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Main Library | Audiobook | BIOGRAPHY Yang, K. Y22 | Available | 33111008650190 | ||||
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Adult Audiobook
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Northport Library | Audiobook | BIOGRAPHY Yang, K. Y22 | Available | 33111008650208 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the 70s and 80s, 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-all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown.
Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother "s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together through their imprisonment in Laos, their narrow escape into Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, their immigration to St. Paul when Yang was only six years old, and their transition to life in America. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard in their adopted homeland.
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Bonus: includes a PDF file of the author's family photos.
Read by the author.
Presents the journey from refuge camp to America and the hardships and joys of a family's struggle to adapt in a strange culture while holding onto traditions that are passed down from her beloved grandmother.