{"product_id":"andrew-pham-catfish-and-mandala-9780312267179","title":"Catfish and Mandala","description":"Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey-a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam-made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often humorous travelogue spanning a year of discovery is a memoir of war, escape, and ultimately, family secrets. Andrew 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, where he finds \"nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness.\" In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey (\"Only Westerners can do it\"); 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.","brand":"Pan MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53381939659094,"sku":"9780312267179-G","price":4.59,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - acceptable","offer_id":53489128767830,"sku":"9780312267179-B","price":3.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780312267179_1_aa9ddcdb-2b0b-434d-8c0b-efe98cf4233d.jpg?v=1778066031","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/andrew-pham-catfish-and-mandala-9780312267179","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}