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.
ISBN: | 9781597140201 |
Publication date: | 16th August 2012 |
Author: | Andrew Lam |
Publisher: | Heyday |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 143 pages |
Genres: |
Asian history Specific wars and campaigns Sociology: family and relationships Literary essays |