Andrew Lam, Stories From the Edge of the Sea

Award-winning local journalist and author Andrew Lam presents from his recently published collection of short fiction "Stories from the Edge of the Sea." Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, these fourteen stories explore themes of love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks revealed through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California.

A book sale and signing follow the presentation and Q&A session.

Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005) winner of the PEN Open Book Award, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres (2010) and Birds of Paradise Lost (2013). Lam was a regular commentator on NPR's (National Public Radio) All Things Considered for many years, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home and editor and co-founder of the now defunct New America Media, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America.

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