Tangled threads
Subtitle: a Hmong girl's story
By: by Pegi Deitz Shea.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Refugees -- Fiction.; Hmong (Asian people) -- Fiction.; Hmong Americans -- Fiction.; Grandmothers -- Fiction.; Embroidery, Hmong -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Providence (R.I.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.