A Hmong Family Memoir

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

Biographical but also an attempt to tell the story of a Hmong family and their journey from Laos via Thailand to St. Paul Minnesota. Although I think it was too ambitious to combine the author's story with a history of the Hmong people, it is a powerful book. It is striking that many of these families survived and prospered in the US because they arrived here before so called welfare reform.