When he was ten, the author of this memoir fled with his family from Vietnam to California, where he led a mostly assimilated life. After finding the professional world of engineering disappointing, however, he began bicycling all over the world, finally going to his homeland, where he spent five months on his bike researching his family's past ...
From the award-winning author of "Catfish and Mandala" comes a son's searing memoir of his Vietnamese father's experiences over the course of three wars.
"Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid--and despite--the horror and chaos of war." --Francine Prose, O, "The Oprah Magazine" Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old ...
'Jack Kerouac meets "Wild Swans".' The Times. A voyage through Vietnam's ghost-ridden landscape, at once a moving memoir, travelogue and compelling search for identity. Vietnamese-born Andrew Pham finally returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts onto his family, but as an emotional shipwreck, desperate to find out who he ...
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