PDF download for my story Chai Vang, originally published in the Baltimore Review. I became interested in Chai Vang's story shortly after "the incident" occurred and printed out several news articles about it. These articles sat in my folder for a couple of years until a class I was taking with Joel Brouwer at the University of Alabama called "Uses of History." Out the articles came and shortly followed the story; it is a favorite of mine.
For those interested, the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino is a pretty great picture of a Hmong community similar to Chai Vang's.
