MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Mai Nemg Moua, author and editor of "Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong-Americans," which features stories, poems and essays written by the first generation of Hmong to grow up in the United States. It is the first Hmong anthology ever published.
Moua says Minnesota is home to nearly a quarter of the estimated 169,000 Hmong now living in the United States. As a result, she says the Twin Cities area has a thriving community of Hmong writers.
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