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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

Lam, Andrew
Rodriguez, Richard

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1597140201
ISBN13: 9781597140201
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: Jul 1 2012
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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