Mia Book Tours Celebrate an Award-Winning Author

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life by Kao Kalia Yang will be featured in November as Mia tour book of the month. 

Kao Kalia Yang has lived an inspiring life.  She has earned multiple awards for her writing: Minnesota Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year and 4 Minnesota Book Awards. She has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and earned an honorary doctorate from Carleton College. ASTOUNDINGLY, she published 4 books in 2024 ( 1 adult and 3 children's books). Sheila Marie Untiedt,

co-chair of the lecture committee, arranged for Kao Kalia Yang to be the Friends Lecture speaker on Sunday, November 16, 2025.

The Star Tribune's Chris Hewitt, interviewed Kao Kalia Yang. He said "Storytelling seems like a pretty great legacy."  She replied, "When I'm gone, I hope what people will see is a statement about life's beauty.  Sometimes people will say, 'Your books are so sad,' and I'm like, ...I don't think so. My books are so much about the strength of human beings and the power of love,  And isn't that the greatest statement about humanity?"

Curious to know more about Kao Kalia Yang?  Enjoy the recent article. "St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang is the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year…” by Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune written this past DECEMBER 21, 2024. https://www.startribune.com/st-paul-writer-kao-kalia-yang-is-the-star-tribunes-artist-of-the-year/601197381