The Latehomecomer

Michael Connolly
Sep 18
1 min read

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang, Coffee House Press, 2010.

The Hmong are a minority people without a country of their own. They live in the mountains of Laos. The United States received help from Hmong General Vang Po in fighting the Communists, and so felt obligated to take in Hmong refugees. This is a memoir of a Hmong girl who fled the Communist Pathet Lao, and lived in refugee camps (Nong Khai, Ban Vinai, and Phanat Nikhom) in Thailand. She eventually ended up in Minnesota.

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