Birds of Paradise Lost

by Andrew Lam

Book Overview

*Finalist for the California Book Award*

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 murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597092681
• ISBN13: 9781597092685
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.8"