Catfish and mandala by andrew x pham6/21/2023 There is a chilling account of a jade polisher, who kills himself due to the depression of not being received into a host nation (Pham, pp. His depiction of his father in a concentration camp (he was freed before officers found out he was a propaganda officer) finds support in the Indonesian refugee imprisonment camps. The flee by boat is close and fascinating. Throughout the book, we get a glimpse of Pham’s earlier life. So is the self-criticism for partaking in such ventures. The dangers of these odd journeys are remarkable, but within the levels of standard travel writing. He flies to Saigon, then moves to Hanoi and bikes back. He stays there for three weeks and after failing to find a cheap boat ride to Japan, takes a plane to Japan. This brings him to the end of his US leg of the journey. He begins the expedition at the Gold Gate Bridge and bikes north along the US Coast, as he moves along, he meets other travelers encounters the steep climbs into Oregon and Washington, and finally reaches Seattle, Washington. The book is narrative in nature and begins when Andrew, fed up with his job as an aerospace engineer in San Francisco, quits his job, takes his bicycle and sets off on a journey that takes him to his native country: Vietnam.
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