Description
Yang’s award-winning memoir of her family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of us intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in Thailand and then, for many, to new homes in Minnesota.
- Literature to Life Title, 2020
- National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Title, 2015
- Jeannette Fair Memorial Award for Distinguished Writing, 2012
- PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, 2010
- Minnesota Book Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, 2009
- Minnesota Readers’ Choice Award Winner, 2009 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner, 2009
- Asian American Literary Award Finalist, 2009
- Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2008
