In her courageous debut memoir, “Ma and Me,” Putsata Reang tells her story of immigrating from Cambodia to America and navigating racism, homophobia and a complicated relationship with her mother.
During her talk, “Resisting erasure through storytelling,” at the Whatcom County Arts Festival on Friday, March 15 at the Bellingham Ferry Terminal, Reang connected the book’s themes to modern issues and encouraged her audience to share their stories.
In 1975, Reang’s family
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