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Catfish and Mandala Spiral-Bound | 2000-09-02

Andrew X. Pham

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Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller

CATFISH AND MANDALA is the poignant, lyrical tale 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 foresaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often humorous travelogue spanning a year of discovery is a memoir of war, escape, and ultimately, family secrets.

FSG Hardcover: 0-374-11974-0

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0312267177
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 8.1 x 0.9 x 5.2 inches
"Thoreau, Theroux, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Mark Twain and William Least Heat-Moon--the roster of those who have turned to their travels for inspiration includes some of America's most noted scribes. Now add Andrew X. Pham to the list...CATFISH AND MANDALA records a remarkable odyssey across landscape and into memory." --The Seattle Times

"No small achievement...Scenes of [Pham's] wild road adventure [are] worthy of Jack Kerouac." --The San Francisco Chronicle

"A fresh and original look at how proud Vietnamese on the war's losing side reconciled having their identity abruptly hypenated to Vietnamese-American."
--The Chicago Tribune

"A trip so necessary and so noble makes others seem like mere jaunts or stunts."
--The New York Times Book Review

Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 and moved to California with his family after the war. CATFISH AND MANDALA is the winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Mr. Pham lives in Portland, Oregon.