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LA Times: Kao Kalia Yang’s “Song Poet” Is One Of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Two Favorite Reads Of 2017

December 18, 2017

Book cover of "A Memoir of my Father The Song Poet" by Kao Kalia Yang - the cover features a picture of Kao as a child and her parents with a light teal overlay and orange lettering

Pulitizer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen selected his two favorite reads of 2017 for The Los Angeles Times. In addition to “The Sellout” by Paul Beatty, Viet selected 2004 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Kao Kalia Yang’s “The Song Poet.” Learn more about Kalia and her memoir here. ∎

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Kao Kalia Yang

Activist & Professor, Author
Kao Kalia Yang is an immigrant from Thailand. Fellowship awarded in 2003 to support work towards an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University

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