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Kao Kalia Yang

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Kao Kalia Yang is an award-winning Hmong-American writer. She is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University. Yang is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir and The Song Poet. The Latehomecomer is the first Asian American authored and centered book to be added to the roster of the Literature to Life Program and a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. The Song Poet has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. Yang is also the author of the children’s books, A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, and The Most Beautiful Thing. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss B ...more

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Kao Kalia Yang I was in a St. Paul public library doing a residency in children's literature. I was reading many books, remembering my childhood. I remembered my fir…moreI was in a St. Paul public library doing a residency in children's literature. I was reading many books, remembering my childhood. I remembered my first library card, showing it to my grandma, trying to explain to her what a library was, telling her it was a huge store of stories, hearing her ask, "Are there stories like mine in it?"--realizing no. The new book is my effort to put the stories of my grandma's childhood, my childhood in her arms, into the libraries. (less)
Kao Kalia Yang I had kids. Time before my computer became more precious. All of a sudden there was so much to write and not enough time or energy to do it. My relati…moreI had kids. Time before my computer became more precious. All of a sudden there was so much to write and not enough time or energy to do it. My relationship with writing changed. I had no more expectations of my theoretical writing and simply started working with what I could get on the page. My children freed me from writer's block in real ways.(less)
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“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“Patience is the road to wisdom.”
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“I learned that what made our parents sad was not so much the hardness of the life they had to lead in America, or the hardness of the lives they had led to get to America, but the hardness of OUR lives in America. It was always about the children.”
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

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