Paper Sons
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- ISBN 9781938769283
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2018
- Publisher: Autumn House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the Autumn House Non-fiction Contest, selected by Alison Hawthorne Deming
(2017)
"Dickson Lam’s Paper Sons combines memoir and cultural history, the quest for an absent father and the struggle for social justice, naming traditions in graffiti and in Chinese culture. Violence marks the story at every turn -from Mao to Malcolm X, from the projects in San Francisco to the lynching of Asians during the California Gold Rush. After one of his former students at the June Jordan School of Equity is gunned down on a street corner, Lam is compelled to tell a mosaic of stories. What does it take, in this social context, to become a person who respects himself and holds hope for those coming up through a culture of exclusion and violence? Lam writes with a depth of hard-won understandings both political and psychological. This is an important book, beautifully crafted, rich in poetic image and juxtapositions, that offers insight and compassion for a nation struggling to make sense of its immigrant nature. I congratulate Dickson Lam on this fine work." - Alison Hawthorne Deming
Dickson Lam is the author of Paper Sons: A Memoir, winner of the 2017 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark.
Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College and lives in Oakland with his wife and daughter.
