Stories from the Edge of Sea: A Book Launch (Oakland)

Join us for a book launch, film screening, and discussion with Vietnamese American author Andrew Lam. He will be reading from his new book of short stories, Stories from the Edge of the Sea, which explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. The reading will be followed by a segment of the PBS documentary, My Journey Home and a Q&A with UC Davis professor Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde discussing Lam’s 30 years of writing as a Vietnamese American author and essayist, and the future prospect of immigrant narratives.

This book reading is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in partnership with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. It is free to attend, but registration is requested.

Praise for Stories from the Edge of the Sea

“Universal and personal.”—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior

“Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora.”—Scott Lankford, author of Tahoe Beneath the Surface

“Taste the desires of comedians, soldiers, tomboys, friends, queers, mothers, and refugees.”—Long Bui, author of Returns of War: South Vietnam