"Suspenseful, touching, and beautifully written." — Margaret George, New York Times best-selling author of Elizabeth I“A gorgeous, emotional book. An important, and timely, American story.” — Karin Tanabe, author of The Diplomat’s Daughter**France, October 1944. A Japanese American war hero has a secret.A secret so awful he'd rather die than tell anyone--one so entwined with the brave act that made him a hero that he's determined ne...

"Compelling . . . Gritty in its historical detail . . . An eye-opening novel about a little known story at the far side of World War II" (Anita Shreve, New York Times–bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife).Inspired by true events, Two Sons of China is a sweeping historical saga from a forgotten theater of World War II, an action-packed tale about an unlikely friendship between two soldiers—one American, the other, Communist Chinese—and t...

"Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam's] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . . a fascinating and important book." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA PEN American Beyond Margins Award winnerIn 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 ...

From the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams, a collection of thirteen short stories following Vietnamese immigrants new to the United States.The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America's newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past—memories of war and its aftermath, of murd...

AUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA • AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST**, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection • Andrew Lam returns with** a literary exploration of love, lust, and loss among Vietnamese immigrants in America.“Universal and personal.”—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman...

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern times—plus the cures that will help us live longer and healthier lives in this century . . . and beyond.Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. And while the story of our triumphs over these afflictions reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achieveme...

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.Andrew Lam's "The Palmist", performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy.W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw", performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers.Saki's "The Occasional Garden", performed by Daniel Gerroll. If ...

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, literary voices of the Vietnamese-American diaspora as well as Vietnam-based authors speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in THE COLORS OF APRIL, a collection of new short fiction curated by award-winning translators and editors Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran.For much of the twentieth century, Vietnam played an outsized role on the global stage, charting the destinies of superpowers and reshaping the world’s politic...

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie.In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of ...