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Within the 70s and 80s, a large number of Hmong individuals made the quest from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to america, all in search of a new location to call home. Years later, their experiences remain largely unidentified. Kao Kalia Yang was powered to share with her own family's storyline after her grandmother's fatality. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose heart held her family mutually through their imprisonment in Laos, their slim get away from into Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, their immigration to St. Paul when Yang was only six years of age, and their transition to life in America. It is also an eloquent firsthand profile of a individuals who have worked hard to make their voices been told in their used homeland.