Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography
Human-narrated audio
In narrating his search for his roots, Vietnamese-American Pham alternates between two story lines: the first chronicles the author's hair-raising…
escape to the U.S. in 1977 and his family's subsequent and somewhat troubled life in California. The second recounts his return to Vietnam almost two decades later as an Americanized but culturally confused young man. Pham pedals his bike the length of his native country while exploring the dilemma of being an outsider in both America and Vietnam. 2000 Whiting Writers' Award. Explicit strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 2000, c1999.