Together, my father and my mother and I planted treasures for me to find in the world. In the wamth of their hold, I saw how the sky was open for everyone. My life has been a series of stops on the way to finding. The sky captivates me. I stop to look. I like how the light from cars streak the wet pavement in the early dark of a rainy morning. I am swept by the lyric ideas of love. I am caught in the demands of daily life. Then: I see a spark of something on the horizon, an emotion grows inside of me, and the idea of an eruption surfaces on my consciousness, scares me, and then I set to writing.

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Look at the news reporter, they want all the community to hear the bad about Vang Pao, like you guys were saying that you were there to support Vang Pao because he brought you to America. That is just an excuse that not even related to the case, that just make him look more terrible. Remember, Vang Pao can not be free because he brought you guys to America, he can only be free if he has done nothing wrong.

Nov yog Peb Hmoob ib tug ntxhias phau ntawv uas nws muaj tsab peev xwm sau los tawm nws tus kheej coj los rau neeg thoob ntiaj teb tau nyeem txog Hmoob. "It is currently the only published Hmong memoir to make an impact in the literary world."

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the specifics of America’s most controversial military campaign prior to Iraq, Kao Kalia Yang’s splendorous debut, The Latehomecomer, should be required reading. Yang goes where few history books dare to, tracing the heartbreaking history of her Hmong family from the bomb-infested forests of Laos to the treacherous territory as a first generation Hmong family in America. Like the intricate embroidered stories that Hmong women wove when their language was outlawed, Yang resourcefully laces together narratives from her family, using her late grandmother’s stories as the thread that binds them together.

Review by : Lizzy Shramko
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