Berkeley, CA: Heyday, (2012). SIGNED - A collection of essays in which Lam "explores his identity as a Viet Kieu (a Vietnamese national living abroad) residing in the United States. On April 28, 1975, 11-year-old Lam and his family fled Saigon aboard a crowded C130 cargo plane just two days before the fall of Saigon to Communist forces. His father, a respected South Vietnamese general, followed soon after, reuniting with the family in California, where they would begin at the bottom rung as they struggled to fulfill the American Dream." Robert Olen Butler comments that "Lam brilliantly illuminates the universal issues of self and home and human striving. He speaks to each of us quite individually and personally, with wit and compassion, about the things that connect us all at the deepest level." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by Richard Rodriguez. xv, 141 pp. ISBN: 978-1597140201.