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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A lyrical and deeply satisfying fiction debut that extols and celebrates the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>*Finalist for the California Book Award*</p> <br> <p>The thirteen stories in <i>Birds of Paradise Lost</i> shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America's newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past--memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity--is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette's Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. <i>Birds of Paradise Lost</i> is an emotional tour de force, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration, and in so doing, the human heart.<p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Featured on <em>CBC radio</em></p> <p>Featured on<em> NetViet</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Andrew Lam is the author of <i>Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora</i>, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and <i>East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres</i>. 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 <i>All Things Considered</i> for many years, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called <i>My Journey Home</i>. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as <i>The </i><i>New York Times</i>, <i>The LA Times</i>, the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>The Baltimore Sun</i>, <i>The Atlanta Journal</i>, the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>Mother Jones</i>, and <i>The Nation</i>, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. <i>Birds of Paradise Lost</i> is his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.

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