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Author:
Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher:
Metropolitan
Date:
November 10, 2020
A themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.
What The Reviewers Say
The true stories in Hmong-American memoirist and St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s collection are haunting and vivid.
... affecting.
... [an] elegant testimony to the connections that endure in lives that have been uprooted and torn apart.
... serves as an object lesson in the utility of creative nonfiction.
