2018 National Book Award Fiction Finalist

Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom

and the ties that bind us not only to what has been

But by night

was endorsed by the DSA

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father masculinity 2018 National Book Award FictionIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War.