Perfume Dreams Cary Clack totaling more than fifty pages

totaling more than fifty pages of new material

laugh-out-loud

at the age of seventy-one

and industrious wasps as in the whales

A beautiful read full of symbolism that invites us to open our gaze to the present moment

Perfume Dreams Cary Clack totaling more than fifty pagesIn his long overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not