Name: Where Rivers Part: Book Discussion with NDAAACI
Start: 2026-11-18
End: 2026-11-18

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Bismarck-Mandan Convention & Visitors Bureau

Join us for a book chat and discussion of the book "Where Rivers Part" by Kao Kalia Yang. This will be facilitated by Heather May, Community Integration Facilitator at the City of Bismarck. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life is a moving memoir by award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang. It serves as the final installment in her powerful family memoir trilogy, following The Late Homecomer and The Song Poet. In the extraordinary Where Rivers Part, Kao Kalia Yang writes with deep feeling and grace about her mother, a Hmong woman who escaped the cascading violence from the Vietnam War.

Where Rivers Part Book Chat

Join us in the Teen Room to discuss the novel Where Rivers Part: a Story of My Mother's Life by Kao Kalia Lang. NDAAACI's Joan Klein and Heather May, from the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health will facilitate a discussion on this memoir describing one Hmong family's journey from Laos to Minnesota. This family's saga will offer a glimpse into the painful decisions, risks and losses experienced by a family who immigrates to escape warfare and persecution. Only two copies are available through the Central Dakota Library Network catalog. Secure your book today. Registration is recommended, but not required. Suggested reading: Where Rivers Part (available on Amazon and through the CDLN) Program made possible through a partnership with the North Dakota Asian-American Arts & Culture Initiative: ndaaaci.org President & Co-founder, Joan Klein and the Community Integration Facilitator from Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health, Heather May.

Where Rivers Part: Book Discussion with NDAAACI

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