Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

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,...