This co-authored mother-daughter memoir, Family in Six Tones, is a moving, powerful, and very relevant story about a Vietnamese refugee (Lan Cao, the mother) and her biracial daughter, Harlan Margaret Van Cao. Since immigration and refugees, and what it means to be American, are all over the news and very much driving current events, this memoir is an easy to read, captivating, and deeply thought-provoking text that no doubt will be taught in more and more schools as time passes. In my teachin