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Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Autobiographies.
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