Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interestīoston Book Review Ann Rea Jewell Non-Fiction AwardĪ Detroit Free Press Best Book of the Yearįinalist for the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.Computer Science & Information Technology.
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