Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1597140201
ISBN 13
9781597140201
Category
Non-Fiction
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
160
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. - from Amzon
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