Title: Tangled threads
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.
Subjects: Hmong Americans, Orphans, Grandmothers, Fiction, Hmong Embroidery, Refugees, Hmong (Asian people), Juvenile fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Refugees, fiction, Rhode island, fiction, Children's fiction