Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

Author:Andrew X. Pham [Pham, Andrew X.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-03-31T20:00:00+00:00

Grandpa Pham was a fair man, Son. He beat my brothers and me because he loved us. He wanted us to succeed.

Your father is unstable in the head, An. His father made him kneel all day in the summer sun. The sunstroke changed him. Made him violent.

I am violent, Mom.

A curse in my father’s line.

The rage was passed on to another generation. A monster in me, for I am violent. A few years down the road, I cane Hien with a spark of Father’s fury. And Hien, barely ten, comes back at me with a knife.

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