Stories from the edge of the sea / Andrew Lam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lam, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese--United States--Short stories.

Vietnamese.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

205 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2025]

Summary:

"At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband's death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover's home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam's short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart a barely explored country"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

She in a dance of frenzy

Agape at the Guggenheim

This isle is full of noises

October laments

A good broth takes its time

Bleak houses

To keep from drowning

The shard, the tissue, an affair

Love in the time of the beer bug

Swimming from the Mekong Delta

What we talk about when we can't talk about love

5A, 5B, DEST:SGN

Muni diaries

The tree of life

Other Format:

Online version: Lam, Andrew. Stories from the edge of the sea.

ISBN:

9781636282428

1636282423

OCLC:

1449624998