Escaping the tiger
By: Laura Manivong.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061661778; 9780061661785
Subjects: Refugees -- Fiction; Laotians -- Thailand -- Fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Family life -- Thailand -- Fiction; Laos -- Politics and government -- 1975- -- Fiction; Thailand -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1982, twelve-year-old Vonlai, his parents, and sister Dalah escape from Laos to a Thai refugee camp, where they spend four long years struggling to survive in hopes of one day reaching America.