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Harlan Margaret Van Cao
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
by Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao
Lan Cao
,
Harlan Margaret Van Cao
New York. Viking. 2020. 304 pages.
“MY AMERICAN LIFE
started with loss.” With that sentence, Lan Cao opens this memoir told in alternating narratives with her daughter, Harlan…
