Review: ‘The Song Poet,’ by Kao Kalia Yang
NONFICTION: An award-winning Twin Cities author writes a remarkable book about her father’s life in Laos, Thailand and Minnesota.
A while back, Kao Kalia Yang raised the idea of chronicling her father’s eventful life. Although there was a lot to work with — after a childhood in war-torn Laos, he and his growing family spent almost a decade in a Thai refugee camp before settling in Minnesota — Bee Yang gently discouraged her: “Who would read a book about a man like me when there are books about presidents, men like Barack Obama, written by themselves?”
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