Kao Kalia Yang Captures Her Mother's Story
Apr 18, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong writer who has written her family and country’s history through deeply personal prisms. She told the story of her family’s beginnings via her grandmother’s story in The Latehomecomer, shared the life of her father in The Song Poet and now writes her mother’s journey in Where Rivers Part. Told in the first person, Where Rivers Part is the beautiful and compelling story of Tswb, who fled Laos to Thailand, eventually fighting her way to Minnesota to give a better future to her children. It is an epic tale of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, struggle and triumph. Our bookstore this week is a 22-year-old dynamo who has already taken Mendham, NJ by storm…watch out world, it’s Chapter One Books.
Books mentioned in this week's episode:
Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang
The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang
Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang
The Shared Room by Kao Kalia Yang
From the Tops of the Trees by Kao Kalia Yang
The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang
Yang Warriors by Kao Kalia Yng
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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