My Journey Home: A Film Screening & Reading of East Eats West by Andrew Lam
New America Media, Event, Andrew Lam Posted: Jan 04, 2011
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Main Library, Lower Level, San Francisco Public Library
391 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
2-4 pm
January 8, 2010
Screening of a documentary about Andrew Lam, a journalist and writer who chronicles the immigrant experiences of others, while struggling to come to terms with his own. He first saw America through the chain-link fence of a relocation camp. It was in stark contrast to the life of privilege and respect his family enjoyed when he was a boy in Vietnam. His father, a South Vietnamese Army general, gathered his family and fled just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. Returning now to his boyhood home, Lam searches for and finds relatives left behind, and he finds himself haunted by deep sadness, guilt, and irretrievable loss. Lam discovers he is Vietnamese, but no longer at home in Vietnam; American, but never completely at home in America. He struggles for an elusive sense of belonging and peace.
Andrew is the author of East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres and Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
More information at: PBS
For those who missed the showing "My Journey Home" is now available on Youtube:
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