Perfume dreams
reflections on the Vietnamese diaspora
by Andrew Lam
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'''When Americans say Vietnam, they don't mean Vietnam.' 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"--Publisher description.
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Ethnic identity, Family, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Americans, Migrations, Social conditions, Refugees, Biography, Refugees, united statesPeople
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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
2019, Heyday
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Perfume dreams: reflections on the Vietnamese diaspora
2005, Heyday Books
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1597140201 9781597140201
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Perfume dreams: reflections on the Vietnamese diaspora
2005, Heyday Books
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