One of the most moving events we could hope for was our December 2023 launch of Sandra Shackelford’s A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, translated and transcribed by May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor, and with an introduction by Pao Lor. Feel free to peruse our photo gallery here, or watch the YouTube video,
This historic collection of oral histories, folktales, and photographs is on sale now at Lion’s Mouth Bookstore (Green Bay), WordHaven BookHouse (Sheboygan). You can order a copy directly from the Teaching Press here.
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- Storyteller Mai Xong on the book cover
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- Descendants of Mai Xiong at the book launch
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- Author Sandra Shackelford with her collaborator and transcribers, May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor
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- The daughter of storytellers Thao Chong and Yee Vang holds her parents’ stories in her hands
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- Sandra Shackelford with Pa Lee, the woman who inspired the book 30 years ago
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- Pa Lee and Sandra Shackelford
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- “I was the baby in this photo!” —30 years later
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- The book’s Project Manager, Designer, and Chief Copyeditor
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