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Item Information       Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-     Subjects     Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-     Yang, Blong -- Family.     Hmong Americans -- Marriage customs and rites.     Bride price.     Hmong American women -- Biography.     Hmong Americans -- Social life and customs.     Mothers and daughters -- Biography.     Children of immigrants -- Biography.     Married people -- Minnesota -- Biography.     Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-       by title:      The bride price : a ...       by call number:      305.8959 M924b     Search the Web     Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-     Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-     Yang, Blong -- Family.     Hmong Americans -- Marriage customs and rites.     Bride price.     Hmong American women -- Biography.     Hmong Americans -- Social life and customs.     Mothers and daughters -- Biography.     Children of immigrants -- Biography.     Married people -- Minnesota -- Biography.     Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Biography.       MARC Display

The bride price : a Hmong wedding story / Mai Neng Moua. by Moua, Mai Neng, 1974- Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2017. Call #: 305.8959 M924b Subjects Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-   Yang, Blong -- Family.   Hmong Americans -- Marriage customs and rites.   Bride price.   Hmong American women -- Biography.   Hmong Americans -- Social life and customs.   Mothers and daughters -- Biography.   Children of immigrants -- Biography.   Married people -- Minnesota -- Biography.   Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Biography. ISBN:  9781681340364 (pbk.) Description:  230 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Prologue -- Poob plig (soul-loss) -- The trouble with me -- Niam's bride price -- Unanswered questions -- Who owns what -- Doing the right thing -- Marriage talks -- Damaged goods -- To save a life -- It takes a family -- Not good for the family -- Captured -- Being Hmong and American -- The wedding, take one -- The wedding, take two -- You may now begin your life -- A knot between two clans -- What is it worth? -- When Niam and I last talked -- Hu-plig (soul-calling) -- Finding grandfather -- Finding father -- The truth -- Finding family -- Made whole -- The garden full of weeds -- The year without Niam -- Risk -- Saying nothing at all -- A new beginning. Summary:  "A principled decision brings unexpected consequences for a Hmong American woman struggling to reconcile the two cultures--and to be a good daughter while breaking the rules. When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love and security from the groom's family. Mai Neng, who knows the pain this tradition has caused, says no. Her husband-to-be supports her choice. What happens next is devastating, and it raises questions about the very meaning of being Hmong in America."--From publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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