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This novelist’s family fled Laos and she ended up in Minnesota
A Year Without Home uses verse to preserve Hmong refugee family histories and aims to reach verse-loving readers and younger Hmong Americans unfamiliar with their heritage.
- Novelist V. T. Bidania published A Year Without Home, a verse novel based on her Hmong refugee family's story.
- Aimed at multiple audiences, Bidania intends the book to reach second- or third-generation Hmong kids and verse-loving readers, including children with Hmong friends who enjoy tales of triumph.
- Presented in poetic form, the verse novel connects verse-loving readers and Hmong descendants through the uncommon literary form of Hmong family history.
- Her family, described as `pretty private` and `shy` by Bidania, will now become the stars of her new book, raising their public profile and engaging more readers.
- Beyond family circles, the book could connect Hmong descendants with family histories and educate non-Hmong readers through a poetic narrative of resilience.
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This novelist’s family fled Laos and she ended up in Minnesota
V. T. Bidania describes her family as “pretty private” and “shy” but they better get used to attention because they’re the stars of her new book. “I didn’t want to write about them,” said the Arden Hills-based writer of books…
·Helena, United States
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