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Literature to Life

The Latehomecomer

Through May 6, 2025
Bruce Montgomery Theatre
PLA Presents

Children's Festival

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2024-2025 NEA Big Read Selection

The impossible happens every day in the life of a refugee. Driven to tell her family's experience—and the history of the Hmong people—Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer shares her search for a place to call home. Traveling through the war-torn jungles of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand, Yang’s family eventually immigrated to America. Brought to life by Hmong actress Gaosong Heu, this acclaimed memoir explores how a quiet girl struggling to learn English became a self-empowered young woman claiming her voice to tell the untold story of her people.

For Tickets for May 5-6:
School groups should contact Anne-Marie Mulgrew at 215.462.7720 or amulgrew@upenn.edu. All others should contact the Box Office at 215.898.3900 or pla-boxoffice@upenn.edu.

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