{"product_id":"perfume-dreams-reflections-on-the-vietnamese-diaspora","title":"Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora","description":"In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves--particularly to those in exile--Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.","brand":"Heyday Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42419427377227,"sku":"9781597140201","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_b43babda-5ba1-4b74-ba36-46758cfacece.jpg?v=1778778562","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/perfume-dreams-reflections-on-the-vietnamese-diaspora","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}