{"product_id":"catfish-and-mandala-a-two-wheeled-voyage-through-the-landscape-and-memory-of-vietnam","title":"Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew X. Pham. Very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCatfish and Mandala\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of an American odyssey―a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam―made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often humorous travelogue spanning a year of discovery is a memoir of war, escape, and ultimately, family secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as \"boat people.\" Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert; on a thousand-mile loop from Narita in South Korea to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds \"nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness.\" In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey (\"Only Westerners can do it\"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books \u0026 Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45943007641773,"sku":null,"price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksandbrew.net\/products\/catfish-and-mandala-a-two-wheeled-voyage-through-the-landscape-and-memory-of-vietnam","provider":"Books And Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}