‘Colors of Asia’ at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Vietnamese American author Andrew Lam.

OAKLAND, California — Award-winning author Andrew Lam will share his reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora and the challenges of adapting to a new life in America on Tuesday, September 26, at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

Lam is a web editor of New America Media, a regular blogger for Huffington Post and, for eight years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

His collection of essays, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, contends with the problem of identity as a Vietnamese living in the US, which received the PEN Open Book Award in 2005.

His second book, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, a meditation on how Asian immigration changed the West, was named Top Ten Indies by Shelf Unbound Magazine. Birds of Paradise Lost, a collection of short fiction about Vietnamese newcomers struggling to remake themselves in the San Francisco Bay, was a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Josephine Miles award for fiction in 2013.

Lam recently interviewed Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for their new documentary series, The Vietnam War premiering on PBS September 17, 2017.

WHO: Oakland Asian Cultural Center

WHAT: Literary Event – Andrew Lam At Home in the Diaspora: A compelling night of readings with author followed by a Q&A session, which promises to be an engaging exploration of the human costs of immigration and the personal weight of history and memory.

WHEN: Tuesday September 26, 2017 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Pacific Renaissance Plaza, Second Floor 388 Ninth Street, Ste 290
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: 510-637-0455

ADMISSION: $10 Tickets in Advance, $5 Students, Tickets $12 (at the door)