The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America

In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the …

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