This is by far the most evocatave piece we have read. I can’t praise this book enough. I know it’s cliché, but this book is a real tour-de-force that took me four days to read. This is a book that my brother would call “so good, it reads like fiction!”
From the very beginning [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pham’
Adventure is But a Collection of Detours
Posted in Catfish and Mandala, tagged immigrant, pham on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
the dark journey home in pham’s _catfish and mandala: a two-wheeled journey through the landscape and memory of vietnam_
Posted in Catfish and Mandala, character, chronology, flashback, poetry, setting, structure, voice, tagged andrew pham, andrew x. pham, bicycle, escape, family, history, hyphen, immigration, journey, memoir, narrator, novel, pham, return, truth, vietnam, vietnamese, vietnamese american on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
andrew x. pham’s backward journey to his roots is a story he tells with acerbic humor, acuity, & humility. he TOLD on his pimpin parents & even asks their forgiveness in his acknowledgements at the end. he better, i thought. talk about losing face!
the big answer to his question of just what set his parents [...]
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