Catfish and Mandala: A Two-wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam Summary
Andrew X. Pham

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam Summary

Catfish and Mandala, by Andrew X. Pham, comingled a narrative of the author's solo bicycle tour of Vietnam with his memories of his birth and boyhood there, which ended when he immigrated to America with his family near the end of the Vietnam War. Its subtitle was appropriate: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. The book began with the author's encounter in Mexico with an American veteran...

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