A Hmong Family Memoir
By Kao Kalia Yang
This book is about the Yang family and how they started out in the jungles of Thailand, and trained in the refugee camps so they could better adjust to life in America. Kao and her family moved to Minnesota when she was only six years old. America was so different than Thailand like the language, food, jobs, schools, marriage, money, and the ways Americans thought about life. This book teaches about the Hmong culture and the adaptions the Hmong had to make when coming to America. It can give teachers a better understanding and insight of the Hmong culture, when they have students in their classrooms. Kao Kalia Yang was in Appleton, Wisconsin in August of 2010, to share the book and story of her memoir.
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