{"product_id":"stories-from-the-edge-of-the-sea-paperback","title":"Stories from the Edge of the Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Lam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- AUTHOR OF \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBIRDS OF PARADISE LOST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection - Andrew Lam returns with \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ea literary exploration of love, lust, and loss among Vietnamese immigrants in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Universal and personal.\"--Maxine Hong Kingston, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e - \"Will be read and studied for years to come.\"--Noël Alumit, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusic Heard in Hi-Fi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e - \"Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora.\"--Scott Lankford, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTahoe Beneath the Surface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e - \"Lam's most lyrical and wide-ranging collection yet.\"--Matthew Spangler, playwright - \"For anyone who has loved and lost a lover, a landscape, a home.\"--Fenton Johnson, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Taste the desires of comedians, soldiers, tomboys, friends, queers, mothers, and refugees.\"--Long Bui, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturns of War: South Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAt times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband's death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover's home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam's short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart barely explored country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Lam\u003c\/strong\u003e fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was 11 years old. He attended the University of California, Berkeley studying biochemistry but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He entered the creative writing program at San Francisco State University instead. While still in school he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He wrote for many newspapers and magazines since, including \u003cem\u003ethe National Geographic Traveler, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and The Nation\u003c\/em\u003e. A regular commentator on NPR's \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e for over 7 years, Lam is the author of 3 books, and has won the Pen Open Book Award and The Josephine Miles Literary Award and many others. He served as a Journalism Fellow at Stanford 2001-02. In 2004 a PBS documentary about his life called \"My Journey Home\" in which a film crew followed him back to Vietnam was aired nationwide. Lam is working on a novel and a memoir about his childhood in Vietnam during the war. He has lectured at many universities and colleges and taught as a writer in residence at San Jose State University in 2015-2016. He lives in San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53577814933811,"sku":"9781636282428","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/stories-from-the-edge-of-the-sea-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}