I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
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