Perfume Dreams Cary Clack and industrious wasps as in

and industrious wasps as in the whales

A rendition of one of California’s oldest tales

An eloquent chronicle about the complexities of being an outdoors woman

at the age of seventy-one

a través del juego

Perfume Dreams Cary Clack and industrious wasps as inIn 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 age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not