The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kaila Yang, offers a first-hand account of the trials and tribulations of a family of Hmong, an ethic group from Southeast Asia who are little known by the outside world. The Hmong fought alongside the United States during the Vietnam war, but were left to fend for themselves after the American withdrawal in 1975. In the aftermath, the Hmong saw the devastation of their traditional towns and villages by America’s enemies, among them the Pathetic Lao. The Hmong thus became a people without a home to call their own, forgotten by the global community. Yang’s book chronicles the struggle of the Hmong to find a new place to settle and to forge an identity for themselves. The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kaila Yang, offers a first-hand account of the trials and tribulations of a family of Hmong, an ethic group from Southeast Asia who are little known by the outside world. The Hmong fought alongside the United States during the Vietnam war, but were left to fend for themselves after the American withdrawal in 1975. In the aftermath, the Hmong saw the devastation of their traditional towns and villages by America’s enemies, among them the Pathetic Lao. The Hmong thus became a people without a home to call their own, forgotten by the global community. Yang’s book chronicles the struggle of the Hmong to find a new place to settle and to forge an identity for themselves.