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I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

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Andrew Lam

All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost," are immigrant narratives - their dreams, their traumas, their struggles - and I write them with the confidence that these stories, written from the heart, will belong, in time, to America.

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In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national.

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It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9
11 is toxic.

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As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

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Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

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Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

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