Heyday Books
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
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- Andrew Lam
- Heyday Books
- Paperback
- 9781597140201
- 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches
- 0.5 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family.
Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves--particularly to those in exile--Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.
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