{"product_id":"catfish-and-mandala-a-two-wheeled-voyage-through-the-landscape-and-memory-of-vietnam","title":"Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\nWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nA New York Times Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\nWinner of the Whiting Writers' Award\u003cbr\u003e\nA Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\nCatfish and Mandala is the story of a young man's solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—an odyssey in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often-humorous travelogue is a memoir of war, escape, and ultimately, family secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\nAndrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as \"boat people.\" Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert; on a thousand-mile loop from Narita in South Korea to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen; and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53957962957168,"sku":"978-1429979924","price":6.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53957962989936,"sku":"978-1429979924","price":20.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/81vtY4sAm4L._SY522.jpg?v=1782788572","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/catfish-and-mandala-a-two-wheeled-voyage-through-the-landscape-and-memory-of-vietnam","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}