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Andrew Lam

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Saigon, Viet Nam

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Andrew Lamis a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and, for 8 years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media organizations in America.

Lam's first short story collection, “Birds of Paradise Lost” was published March 01, 2013 and won a Gold Medal from UC Irvine for contributions to the humanities as well as a Pen/Josephine Miles Literary Award.

His book of essays, "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres" was published in September 2010 and was listed as top 10 Indies of 2010 by Shelf Unbound Magazine. He’s working on a novel.

His book, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" has recentl ...more

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Eating, Reading, and Writing: An Interview with Andrew Lam
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Award-winning author and New American Media editor Andrew Lam discusses his work, contemporary journalism, the complexity of cultural exchange, and what he hopes to see when his work is read in a classroom.

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	Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam (Goodreads Author), Richard Rodríguez (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic by Symphony Space, Andrew Lam (Goodreads Author), T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds of Paradise Lost 4.21 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres 3.87 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later by Quan Manh Ha, Quyen Ngo (Narrator), Cab Tran 4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Are You From?: An Anthology of Asian American Writing (Volume 1) by Byron Wong, Valerie Katagiri, Larry Yu 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Kinas to sønner by Andrew Lam (Goodreads Author), Kirsten A. Nielsen (Translation) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

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“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”
― Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

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“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories, fused by his new eyes and imagination, and he needed to tell those stories if he ever hoped to be whole again.”
― Andrew Lam, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres

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“So although I still understand my brother in the coffee shop, while he speaks of vengeance, I have learned a different lesson, the American lesson: the knack of reinventing oneself. To survive in the New World, we must, likewise, challenge the old world’s blood-for-blood ethos and search for a new story line.”
― Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

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