The Bridge Generation Grows Up

The Bridge Generation Grows Up examines how daughters of Hmong refugees growing up in America develop skills to read and write across languages and cultures.

Kaia L. Simon’s book beautifully details the literate agility developed by Hmong women who bridge geographic, linguistic, and generational divides. Grounded in the narrative perspective of a generation after mass migration, the book helps readers think hard about what it means to be women who bridge through literacy: challenging gendered expectations, enacting translingual agency, and creating ‘new ways of being.’

Kaia L. Simon is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.