Across the Mekong River
By: Elaine Ruussell
Publisher: [CreateSpace]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781466338104
Subjects: Refugees; Fiction; Hmong (Asian people); Hmong Americans; Family relationships
Description: In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows the Lees from a squalid refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Minnesota and eventually California. Family members struggle to survive in a strange foreign land, haunted by the scars of war and loss of family." Across the Mekong River" paints a vivid picture of the Hmong immigrant experience, exploring family love, sacrifice, and the resiliency of the human spirit to overcome tragic circumstances.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242).