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Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

Yang, Kao Kalia
Yang, Kao Kalia
Xiong, Pamela

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Publisher Price: $44.99

ISBN10: 1797171232
ISBN13: 9781797171234
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: Mar 19 2024
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.83 Depth: 5.59
Language: English
This powerful memoir about a Hmong family's epic journey to safety is a profound testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans).Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb's childhood was marked by the violence of America's Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew behind and fled their village for the jungle. Perpetually on the run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were both nearly thirty and worked grueling jobs to provide for their children. Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother's astonishing saga with tenderness and clarity, giving voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. Haunting and painfully relevant (Booklist), Where Rivers Part is destined to become a classic.

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