Andrew Q Lam's Reviews
Reviews of Andrew’s Work
Apr.08.2013
Published by Chicosol.com
By Lindajoy Fenley
© chicoSol
posted April 5
Andrew Lam's short story collection, "Birds of Paradise Lost," lured me into a labyrinth of past and present in which...
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Apr.01.2013
Published by SF Chronicle
Elizabeth Rosner
March 31, 2013
Birds of Paradise LostStoriesBy Andrew Lam(Red Hen; 200 pages; $15.95 paperback)
Several decades have passed since harrowing and miraculous...
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Mar.19.2013
Published by Shelf Awareness
The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space between the dreamscape of Vietnam and the glass and steel of "...
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Mar.06.2013
Published by Huffington Post
Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost captures the universal immigrant experience -- where versions of paradise are both lost and gained -- through the very particular...
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Mar.03.2013
Published by Goodreads.com
Andrew Lam, one of my favorite writers, has often demonstrated his journalist's ability to see the broad themes in the most particular of situations. He is one of the few...
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Oct.24.2012
Published by blogster.com
As a child I grew up reading books like John Bellairs’ The House with a Clock in It’s Walls,J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Madeleine L’Engle’s A...
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Oct.08.2012
Published by Blogster.com
Andrew Lam’s California is one of cultural collision, a land of fusion cuisine and religious diversity, a land shaped byimmigrants and the spices they bring with them, be...
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Sep.17.2012
Published by Diacritics
Christina Vo revisits Andrew Lam’s two previous memoir essay collections, Perfume Dreams and East Eats West, and previews his forthcoming fiction collection,...
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May.12.2012
Published by Los Angeles Review of Books
Of Refugees and Cosmopolites
Ever since childhood, I have had an odd aversion to reading any book with the word "dream" in its title, doubly distasteful to me those...
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Mar.23.2012
Published by Asian American Literary Review
The year 2010 marked a turning point for Vietnamese American literature. Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, Andrew Lam’s East Eats West, and...
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Jan.06.2012
Published by Scribd.com
Barros, Corina 07-78921
September 29, 2010
Prof. Jose Y Dalisay Jr
CL 111
The Image of Displacement when East Meets West
Palmistry or the characterization and foretelling...
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Published by International Examiner
Andrew Lam’s book is something of a mixed bag. It is part essay and part journalism. In his essays, he writes in the first-person and mines the material of his life from times...
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Oct.25.2011
Published by Examiner.com
Stories about immigration to the United States are always compelling for the enourmous fears faced and challenges overcome by the young and old. Fleeing...
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Dec.01.2010
Published by Audrey Magazine
"In his collection of 21 personal essays, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, Andrew Lam explores not only how the East and West have respectively changed but how they are...
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Dec.17.2010
Published by Hyphen Magazine
From Hyphen Magazine: "In One Passionate Essay, 'Letter to a Young Iraqi Refugee", journalist Andrew Lam, who was forced into exile from Vietnam as a boy, advises the youth: "...
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About Andrew
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media in...
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