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The Mission College - SPRING 2011 | ||
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham, Heather Ann Thompson Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-312-26717-7 / 0312267177 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-26717-9 / 9780312267179 A great memoirist can burnish even an ordinary childhood into something bright--see, for instance, Annie Dillard's An American Childhood. So what about a really good writer with access to a dramatic and little-documented story? This is the case with Catfish and Mandala, Vietnamese American Andrew X. |