BOOKS

The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
A compelling, lively narrative history of the peoples and cultures of the great river of...

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey―a solo bicycle voyage around...

Lao Legends
"Lao Legends," a collection of magnificent Lao tales traditionally passed down orally, now...

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room...

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey...

Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visits Laos...

Voices From The Plain of Jars
This is During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos.

The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory
This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions...

What We Inherit
“Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you’ll be forgetting...

Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival
As a five-year-old boy, Pao Lor joined thousands of Hmong who fled for their lives...

A Great Place to Have a War
Through interviews and original reporting, Kurlantzick argues that America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s...