![]() “I have to do something unethnic,” he says. Much to his parents’ displeasure, he set off on bicycle excursions through Mexico, Japan, and, finally, Vietnam. A few years ago, rebelling against family pressures to succeed and a patronizing, if not racist, work environment, Pham quit his job. Raised in California, he worked hard, went to UCLA, and landed a good engineering job. Pham (born Pham Xuan An) fled Vietnam with his family in 1977 at age ten. Now comes a stunning first: a family tale by a Vietnamese-American that centers on an eye-opening trip to his native land. ![]() So, too, has the multigenerational Vietnamese-refugee family saga. ![]() The veteran-penned “going back” book has become a subgenre of the American Vietnam War canon. A brilliantly written memoir in which a young Vietnamese-American uses a bicycle journey in his homeland as a vehicle to tell his eventful life story. ![]()
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