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Poor Amina

  • Hmong
  • April 4, 2023

As a second-generation Hmong-American, I am constantly haunted by the Hmong narrative, a story that is “inherently” my own as it is unbelonging to me, elements of my core being stemming from that of the Secret War in Vietnam, diaspora, and cultural brokenness.

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Quiet As They Come

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country.

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Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam War

  • Vietnamese Cambodian
  • April 4, 2023

In Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu explores the international journeys of antiwar and anti-imperialist activists from the United States during the Vietnam War era (1959–1975).

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The Best We Could Do

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past.

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The Boat

  • Vietnamese
  • April 4, 2023

Interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed short story by Nam Le of of 16-year-old Mai, sent alone by her parents on a boat after the Fall of Saigon.

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The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth

  • Hmong
  • April 4, 2023

Poems reflect on and portray the Hmong experience both in Asia and in the U.S., and the struggles Hmong families go through in assimilating to U.

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