Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life [ARC]

Yang, Kao Kalia

ISBN 10: 1982185295 / ISBN 13: 9781982185299

Published by Atria Books, 2024

About this Item

New, no dust jacket as issued. Trade Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. New, unread copy. By the Minnesota Book Award-, National Book Critics Circle Award-, Dayton's Literary Peace Prize-, and PEN USA Literary Award-winning author of ? The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir? and ?The Song Poet?. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life [ARC]
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982185295
• ISBN 13: 9781982185299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Advanced Reading Copy.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust Jacket as issued

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Synopsis

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 violence of America’s Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew behind and fled their village for the jungle.

Perpetually on the run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were both nearly thirty and worked grueling jobs to provide for their children.

Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother’s astonishing saga with tenderness and clarity, giving voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. “Haunting and painfully relevant” (Booklist), Where Rivers Part is destined to become a classic.

About the Author

Kao Kalia Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and came to America at the age of six. She is the author of The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Yang Warriors, and most recently, Where Rivers Part. She also coedited What God Is Honored Here? and is the author of a collective memoir about refugee lives called Somewhere in the Unknown World. Find out more at KaoKaliaYang.com.