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The Blue House I Loved

The Blue House I Loved

Yang, Kao Kalia
Shin, Jen

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1517907977
ISBN13: 9781517907976
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 36
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.40 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

A Hmong girl tells the story of her beloved aunt and uncle's first home in America--long gone, but still alive in the family's memories

The Blue House I Loved centers on a family of newly arrived Hmong refugees who move into the lower level of a duplex in St. Paul, Minnesota. The narrator loves her aunt and uncle's home with its mismatched furniture, but it is too small for the large family. The boy cousins sleep in the three-season porch, where their wet hair freezes in wintertime, and the rest of the family crowds into two bedrooms. Yet this is the cherished home where they live and love, their own small corner of a very large and unfamiliar place, and in this blue house a young girl learns about her new country. Eventually, the family moves in search of more space, and years later the house is torn down. Where it was, green grass now grows. But for this girl and her family, the ghost of the house remains, its memories a strong thread that holds time at bay and hearts close together.

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