![]() But the bit about her marriage went beyond bad luck. ![]() Her kidney disease struck when she was a college student at St. That’s not what a good Hmong girl is supposed to be or do.” “A lot of people have a problem with those things. I have so many strikes against me - I’m fatherless, I have kidney disease, I got married late, to someone I chose for myself,” said Moua, who is married to Blong Yang, the first Hmong-American to be elected to the Minneapolis City Council. People were already talking about her behind her back, so why be silent? By taking her story back from the gossips and putting it on the page, she hopes to open a conversation about what it means to be a Hmong person in Minnesota. That’s a tough starting place for a writer to work from, but she pushed on. ![]() Mai Neng Moua is certain that many of the people in her life won’t like her new memoir, “The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story” (Minnesota Historical Society Press). ![]()
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