06/01/2026
We're so excited to announce our new collaboration with Lion's Mouth Bookstore!
From June 1st to August 1st, receive 15% off of "Bamboo Son" by Pao Lor at Lion's Mouth Bookstore as a part of our quarterly "Lit Pick"! We hope that this collaboration serves to better connect our community with the stories of people like our students. At the core of our organization are stories of survival, resilience, and hope. Each quarter, we'll be promoting a different book that centers the cultures and journeys of our students. With so many countries of origin represented at Literacy Green Bay, the possibilities will be endless! Thank you to Lion's Mouth Bookstore for providing this platform, and to Pao Lor for sharing his story with all of us. Head on down to Lion's Mouth Bookstore for your copy!
Book Description: "In this follow-up to his acclaimed memoir, Modern Jungles, Pao Lor picks up his story as a young Hmong immigrant building a new life in a new home and shares the narrative of his ensuing journey into adulthood. Lor emerged from war and tragedies in the jungles of Laos and refugee camps of Thailand in the 1970s to pursue a vision of the American dream in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the 1980s. The distance between his humble beginnings and that dream life was littered with challenges as well as possibilities."