When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited… — Andrew Lam Broke 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… — Andrew Lam Character Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Hope 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,… — Andrew Lam Character 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… — Andrew Lam Comprehensive 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,… — Andrew Lam America 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… — Andrew Lam Floating 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,… — Andrew Lam Adam 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]… — Andrew Lam Books 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… — Andrew Lam Changed 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 Atmosphere 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… — Andrew Lam East and west Copy Share Image
Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border,… — Andrew Lam Borders Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Desperate Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam And off Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in… — Andrew Lam Aliens Copy Share Image
In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They… — Andrew Lam Backgrounds Copy Share Image
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who… — Andrew Lam Behalf Copy Share Image
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam Lost Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam America Copy Share Image
In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat. — Andrew Lam Immigrants Copy Share Image
[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated… — Andrew Lam Blame Copy Share Image
Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it,… — Andrew Lam Careers Copy Share Image
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story… — Andrew Lam America Copy Share Image
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . — Andrew Lam Events Copy Share Image
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