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kaillem's review against another edition
5.0
Read it for an anthropology class, and I actually liked it. If you want to understand the Vietnamese diaspora and the 1.5 generation, I highly recommend this book.
tnafam10's review against another edition
5.0
Found out that my grandfather and the author’s father were friends while reading this book. Neat.
emmaowens's review against another edition
Book for school— never ended up finishing.
melbrooker's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition
4.0
The more mature response to one's tragedy is not hatred nor resentment but spiritual resilience with which one can, again and again, struggle to transcend one's own biographical limitations. History is trapped in me, indeed, but history is also mine to work out, to disseminate, to discern and appropriate, and to finally transform into aesthetic self-expression.
Really loved this set of essays on the Vietnamese diaspora. Andrew Lam writes with a deep understanding of himself and the journey he is taking to get there, touching on legacies of war, older generation Vietnamese refugees trapped in history, memories easily erased within capitalist America, and the dual lives of Vietnamese American children.
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