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Twilight Territory
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Going Full Cycle -- Andrew X. Pham Pedals Along A Journey Of Discovery
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"Catfish and Mandala" Andrew X. Pham will read from "Catfish and Mandala" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 S. Main St. in Seattle. Information: 206-624-6600. -------------------------------
Revelatory road trips long have been a mainstay of Amencan literature: Thoreau, Theroux, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Mark Twain and William Least Heat-Moon - the roster of those who have turned to their travels for inspiration includes some of America's most noted scribes. Now add Andrew X. Pham to the list. His new book, "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam," (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25) records a remarkable odyssey across landscape and into memory.
The eldest son of a husband and wife who found themselves working as an anti-Communist propagandist and a brothel madame during the Vietnam War, Pham and his family fled that country in 1977, and came to America to begin life anew. Two decades and a lot of water under the bridge later, Pham had achieved the American Dream - a degree from UCLA and an engineering job in California. But he shucked it all after his trans-sexual sister turned brother, Chi/Minh, com
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nyone who has traveled to one of the remoter parts of the world knows the feeling that comes over you when you realize, suddenly and viscerally, how far you are from home. The sensation is both terrifying and exhilarating, as if the distance across oceans and continents were opening up directly under your feet. It's like taking a hit of some mind-expanding drug: in the streets of a foreign city, the contours of things acquire a clarity that's often unrealizable in your native land. From Marco Polo to Graham Greene, writers have relied on this peculiar high to lend a kick to their powers of observation and have gone seeking the drug in ever more remote valleys and villages.
How much harder it is to be a visionary close to home! Familiarity can render places not more knowable but less. Every so often, however, a gifted writer manages to produce a travel book that, while dealing with a place or culture he knows well, still has all the sharpness and strangeness of a dispatch from the dark side of the moon. Such a book is Andrew X. Pham's remarkable CATFISH AND MANDALA: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25).
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