LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital ... Driving around, the Xiongs stopped at a Hmong village. Kao joined a group of children playing tuj lub, a traditional top-spinning game.

It was a life on the high mountains of Laos, in villages and towns ... winning writer from the Hmong American community. She writes books for both adults and children and is a Guggenheim fellow ...

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital ... Driving around, the Xiongs stopped at a Hmong village. Kao joined a group of children playing tuj lub, a traditional top-spinning game.

"Before, in Laos, we grew food only for our own ... In between baking croissants and baguettes for the village, a trade she learnt in France, she teaches traditional Hmong dancing to the children. "I ...

His parents collected their 11 children and packed their ... a rural but strategically placed village on the border of Laos and North Vietnam. Hmong families like his didn’t keep written records ...