A Reading with Andrew Lam: Birds of Paradise Lost

Reading with Andrew Lam: Birds of Paradise Lost Date & Time: Wed, 8 Mar @5:00PM-7:00PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English Sàn Art was pleased to host the reading session with Andrew Lam on his book, Birds of Paradise Lost, finalist for the California Book Awards. The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish, joy, and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the...

Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New American Media, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times,...