Biography

Lives told at book length: soldiers of the Secret War, shamans, matriarchs, community founders, and public figures of the diaspora. The line between biography and memoir runs thin in Hmong letters, where an author telling a parent's life is often also telling the community's, so browse this shelf and the memoir shelf together. Kao Kalia Yang's The Song Poet, her father's life in her hands, is the place to start.