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Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year
Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his
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"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with...
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Người Việt Books
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2016.
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Vietnamese
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"Toi di quanh Ha Noi di bo tu pho nay sang pho khac Ha Noi tap nap nhon nhip nguoi xe nhu mac cui Cai canh xo bo cua Ha Noi ngay hom nay khac voi Ha Noi trong toi Toi nho nhung trua he Ha Noi vang tanh lau lam moi co mot nguoi dap xe keo ket tren duong Ha Noi cua toi ngay ay di cach xa nha den vai day pho nguoi ta van nhan ra nhau Tu nha toi di ra den Lo Su Hang Dau bon tre bang tuoi nhau deu biet mat biet ten nhau het Toi di nhu dua tre len muoi...
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East Eats West shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two global regions meld into one worldwide "immigrant nation." In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes tomorrow's classic. But, while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalization, some cultural gaps remain.
In this collection of twenty-one personal essays, Andrew Lam, the award-winning...
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Hanover Square Press
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2024.
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"Tu Lam is known not just for his remarkable accomplishments in the military as a decorated Green Beret, but for his exceptional work outside of it. From his tireless charity work for veterans with physical and mental disabilities to his incredible business ethic on which he founded a company, working alongside his wife to provide advanced training and tactical equipment to the military, law enforcement and law-abiding citizens, Tu Lam has made a...
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"Along the Perfume River lives an old woman who has never left her village, who has raised children and grandchildren, never having seen the other side of the river. A nightclub owner from Vietnam travels the world, hobnobbing with international celebrities. A young man goes to college in America, only to return to Vietnam with made-up stories and forged photographs of himself with President Clinton. And another grows up both an American teenager...
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First Second
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2023.
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"Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
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Villard Books
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c2010
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A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.
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Bodhichitta Press
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[2020]
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''In The Gifts of Adversity, Dr. Carolee Tran vividly recounts her harrowing escape out of Vietnam with her family during the fall of Saigon and the obstacles they faced in pursuing the American dream, including the traumas of the Vietnam War, polio, forced relocation to the U.S., bullying, and experiences of racism. She also describes her history of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest for seven years, its impact on her life, and how she found the strength...
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