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The bride price : a Hmong wedding story / Mai Neng Moua.
Van Pelt Library E184.H55 M684 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moua, Mai Neng, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moua, Mai Neng, 1974-.
- Moua, Mai Neng.
- Yang, Blong--Family.
- Yang, Blong.
- Hmong Americans--Marriage customs and rites.
- Hmong Americans.
- Bride price.
- Hmong American women--Minnesota--Biography.
- Hmong American women.
- Hmong Americans--Minnesota--Social life and customs.
- Mothers and daughters--Minnesota--Biography.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Children of immigrants--Minnesota--Biography.
- Children of immigrants.
- Married people--Minnesota--Saint Paul--Biography.
- Married people.
- Kidneys--Transplantation--Biography.
- Kidneys.
- Kidneys--Transplantation.
- Manners and customs.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Minnesota--Saint Paul.
- Minnesota.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2017]
- 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."--Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781681340364
- 1681340364
- OCLC:
- 972158769
- Publisher Number:
- 99971585937
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