INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Shea, Pegi Deitz , Shea, Pegi Deitz

Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story

(4) 4-6 Thirteen-year-old Mai leaves the Thai refugee camp where she's lived for ten years for a new home in Providence, Rhode Island. There she is torn between Hmong traditions and modern American culture, between her old-world grandmother and her Americanized teen cousins. Despite some amateurish writing, this is an accessible and immediate novel, and a welcome addition to the immigrant-experience canon.

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