Paul thoroughfare largely revived by the local immigrant and refugee communities. Yang and Hokanson’s house also lies down the way from University Avenue, the St. Run down and cramped, it nevertheless “would be our first piece of America, the first home we would buy with the money our parents earned,” she wrote in The Late Homecomer. She remembers her family’s 950-square-foot house as having the smell of thrift stores. It’s an experience she chronicled in her 2008 book, The Late Homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Yang spent her teenage years less than a mile away, the second of seven children in an extended Hmong family. Through the back window you can see their silhouettes, their small faces framed by headphones. Today, the boys are inside with their older sister, Shengyeng, who is 7, and four cousins doing distance learning, supervised by Hokanson. Paul’s Phalen neighborhood five years ago, just after the birth of their sons. Hokanson and Yang moved to this home in St.
“I was just all belly, and I had to occupy the fullness of my four-nine-and-a-half.” Yang has placed them there in anticipation of the topics we will be discussing. “There was no room for the artificial height, there was no room to grow vertically, so it was all horizontal,” she says, smiling.
Yang, who is a smidge over 4-foot-9-a point she mentions often-says she became comfortable with her height when she was pregnant with her 5-year-old twin sons, Yuepheng and Thayeng. She invites me to sit at the opposite end of a table on the back patio.
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