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You can think of kwv txchiaj as the Laos version of the blues, according to Kao Kalia Yang. Her latest book, The Song Poet, is about that ancient musical tradition. She tells the story of her father, a refugee, who was driven from his country but never stopped singing songs of home. (Photo: Kao Kalia Yang with her father Bee Yang, courtesy of the Yang Family)