Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Andrew Lam faith & spirituality in the middle of a

in the middle of a disastrous career in advertising

Probably a greater proportion of O’Hara’s poems can be read for sheer pleasure than the poems of any other 20th-century writer

Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy…

or a productivity technique

Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Andrew Lam faith & spirituality in the middle of aIn 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