After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
year: 2004
call number/section: 1000
subjects: hmong (asian people), fiction, hmong americans, refugees, immigrants, historical fiction, laos, history, 20th century, fiction, saint paul (minn.)