An NEA Big Read Selection This is the best account of the Hmong experience I ve ever read--powerful heartbreaking and unforgettable. --Anne Fadiman author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A narrative packed with the stuff of life. -- Entertainment Weekly Kao Kalia Yang is the author of The Song Poet and The Latehomecomer which was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award and the Asian American Literary Award and received the 2009 Minnesota Book Award.