Literature to Life: The Latehomecomer show poster

Literature to Life: The Latehomecomer at Penn Live Arts

Dates: (5/4/2025 - 5/6/2025 )

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Penn Live Arts

3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6219
Philadelphia,PA 19104

Phone: 215.898.3900

2024-2025 NEA Big Read Selection

The impossible happens every day in the life of a refugee. Driven to tell her family's experience—and the history of the Hmong people—Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer shares her search for a place to call home. Traveling through the war-torn jungles of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand, Yang’s family eventually immigrated to America. Brought to life by Hmong actress Gaosong Heu, this acclaimed memoir explores how a quiet girl struggling to learn English became a self-empowered young woman claiming her voice to tell the untold story of her people.

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