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Author:
Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher:
Atria Books
Date:
March 19, 2024
A memoir about a Hmong family's journey to safety told from the perspective of the author's mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds.
What The Reviewers Say
Her immensely powerful new book confirms Yang as one of America's sharpest nonfiction writers.
This journey across the world takes more than a decade, and it is told simply and earnestly in Yang’s limpid prose. She takes her time, and the pace of the book is luxurious.
Yang strikes deep with prose that is spare, concrete, sometimes indeed flat.
In an audacious act of love and art, Yang writes this memoir from her mother’s point of view.
