A Mosaic of Voices: Review of I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience

Abstract

In another hundred years, as new immigrant groups arrive in the U.S., the children of today's Hmong will hopefully turn to books like I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience to gain a perspective on change. For readers in the present, this book provides a much-needed beginning for the integration of the Hmong story into the fabric of American culture. The Hmong experience becomes multidimensional as Lillian Faderman and her assistant-intermediary Ghia Xiong mould the narratives of thirty-six Hmong into the mosaic of the immigrant experience in America.

Keywords

• hmong american
• oral history