" Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend. "

― Andrew X. Pham , Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam