The Latehomecomer at The Historic Holmes Theatre
Jan 24, 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Latehomecomer at The Historic Holmes Theatre
January 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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This Lit for Life production brings author Kao Kalia’s powerful novel The Latehomecomer to life as a play sharing a Hmong/ Minnesota immigration story with musical talent, and history of the war in Vietnam. Winner of a PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction and Minnesota’s Book Award.
About the Story
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand, finally emigrating to America; but lacking a written language of their own. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death – the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others – The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to her remarkable grandmother whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard.
The Latehomecomer takes its name from a short story by Canadian writer Mavis Gallant and references Jews who returned home from internment hoping to find homes that no longer exist. Winner of a PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction and Minnesota’s Book Award and Readers Choice Award, it is the first memoir written by a Hmong-American to be published with national distribution. A Hmong written language was not taught or used until the 1950s, so author Kao Kalia Yang plays a large role in bringing the culture into the realm of literature. Asked how long it took to write the book, Yang answered four years, but “centuries and centuries to do the living” (Mn Artists).
Told with the immediacy of the author as a young girl, born in the Ban Vinai Refugee camp in Thailand, Kao Kalia arrives in the United States when she is six. The story follows her journey from a quiet, reticent student struggling to speak English while facing racial discrimination, to a self-empowered young woman claiming her voice to tell the untold story of her people.
Appropriate for: elementary / middle / high school, college, and community audiences
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Holmes Theatre Tickets: $10 Adults & $5 Students
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