![]() ![]() He sold all of his possessions and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert, where he was treated as a bueno hermano, a "good brother" around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." His father had been a POW of the Vietcong his family came to America as "boat people." His sister committed suicide, prompting Andrew to quit his job. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, he held technical jobs at United Airlines - and always carried a letter of resignation in his briefcase. ![]() A Vietnamese Bicycle Days by a stunning new voice in American letters.Īndrew X. ![]()
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