The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

The book that I am reading is call  “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir”, it’s by Kao Kalia Yang. Kao Kalia Yang was immigrated to St. Paul, Minnesota when she was only 6 years old. This book is a non-fiction, it’s a very interesting. She had publish 2-3 books, all the book are almost the same but it has a little bit of difference. The first book is call “The Latehomecomer: A Family Memoir”, the second book is call “The Song Poet: A Memoir Of My Father” and the last book is call “A Map Into the World”. All of them were from different years such as in 2008, 2016, and 2019. And as I saying up there, the book is a non-fiction b/c it talks about her life and talks about the important things that had happen to her and many more.

This story is about a Hmong girl name Kao Kalia Yang. Yes, the author is the main character. In the book she talks about her family and other thousands of Hmong families who made a  journey from the war in Laos to the refugee in Thailand. And she also included how many Hmong families were immigrated to the United State and to many other places around the world. In this book you will know how the Hmong people went through and how they have to move places to places to be safe. There wasn’t any place to call home after all the journey she went through as a child. The journey was a really personal experience.There were many important main characters in this book, it would be her parent, older sister, grandma, uncles and cousins. Each of them were have a really special bond with Kao. As you read more you’ll find out more about coming into the United State was like.

In my opinion I really like this book. This book is a very interesting book, it shows about someone point of view of the war and how it was like to be over there at that time. She wrote to the people are actually interested in others people life and how it was. This book is more like journalistic, if you are into those types of book I recommend you to read this book.  And if you aren’t into non-fiction and journalistic types of book then it’s okay to read another book or just give it a try, you might like it.

Book Review by Jamie Y.