Tangled threads

By Pegi Deitz Shea

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