A review by allysonwbrunette
The Late Homecomer by Kao Kalia Yang

5.0

I don’t know that I would have been drawn specifically to this book on my own, but this is the 2020 Fox Cities Reads selection and I was able to borrow a community copy to read in advance of Kao Kalia Yang’s coming to the Fox Cities Book Festival this spring. The story line follows the multi-generational story of Kao’s grandmother, parents and siblings as they fleed from Vietnam, spent years in Thailand refugee camps and eventually resettled in California and Minnesota as refugees in the United States in the 1990s. Hmong culture is very present in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but I don’t know a great deal about it. This book presented a beautifully accessible narrative of Kao’s family history, Hmong folklore and a unique perspective on a displaced people seeking to find their new cultural and physical home in this world.