Stories from the Edge of the Sea by Andrew Lam Paperback Book 9781636282428

AUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA • AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection • Andrew Lam returns with a literary exploration of love, lust, and loss among Vietnamese immigrants in America.“Universal and personal.”—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior • “Will be read and studied for years to come.”—Noël Alumit, author of Music Heard in Hi-Fi • “Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora.”—Scott Lankford, author of Tahoe Beneath the Surface • “Lam’s most lyrical and wide-ranging collection yet.”—Matthew Spangler, playwright • “For anyone who has loved and lost a lover, a landscape, a home."—Fenton Johnson, author of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life • “Taste the desires of comedians, soldiers, tomboys, friends, queers, mothers, and refugees.”—Long Bui, author of Returns of War: South VietnamAt times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen...