A review by quigonchuy
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It's a beautifully written memoir that doubles as a history lesson through the eyes of a single Hmong family starting from the Vietnam war through to the passing of the family matriarch here in the US. It's also a testament to the failure of the American media and the education in the US (though it is not framed like this, this is just my commentary) that it is not common knowledge that the US recruited almost an entire group of people (2/3 of Hmong men) to fight a shadow war in Laos on behalf of the US and the repercussions of that.