Chippewa Valley Book Festival: A History Stretching Across Oceans and Generations

Few know the full story of how the Hmong became refugees. V.T. Bidania will give a brief overview of the history of the Hmong and their resettlement in the US, and discuss her new middle grade verse novel, A Year Without Home. This novel tells the journey of her family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War and their year living in refugee camps before arriving in the US. She will share her inspiration for her chapter books Extraordinary Eliana and Astrid & Apollo and talk about her process of writing a fictionalized memoir.