STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA with author ANDREW LAM and Aimee Phan

Join authors Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan in conversation on Lam’s new book, Stories from the Edge of the Sea. At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband’s death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover’s home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam’s short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart a barely explored country.

“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief, shock and delight.”

—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and others

Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Location: Mechanics’ Institute