The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

By Kao Kalia Yang

RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-56689-208-7

PUBLISHER: Coffee House Press

“This is the best account of the Hmong experience I’ve ever read—powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.”—Anne Fadiman

Back Cover: “The Latehomecomer is a wonderful journey into the very personal experiences of its author, and it is also a story about so many of us. Reading this book is about experiencing the Hmong American transformation.”—Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua

Back Cover: “Yang tells her family’s story with grace; she narrates their struggles, beautifully weaving in Hmong folklore and culture. By the end of this moving, unforgettable book . . . readers will delight at how intimately they have become part of this formerly strange culture.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Evidence of My Existence

Evidence of My Existence
By Jim Lo Scalzo
Release Date: October, 2007
ISBN: 0821417738
Publisher: Ohio University Press

From a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next. It is also a story of photojournalism and the consequences of obsessive wanderlust.