Book description
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…
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1 author picked Where Rivers Part as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A beautiful memoir in which the author reimagines her mother's life, telling the story in her mother's voice.
She benefited from stories her mother told her, much as I did in writing my memoir. Yang has taken it further by writing the book from her mother's perspective. It is the story of two generations of Hmong women—the author's mother and her grandmother. The narrative spans decades, starting with America's secret war in Laos. The narrator's mother fled Laos for Thailand and eventually the United States.
This memoir's structure gave me ideas about how to craft my own book, and especially…
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