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"on my long [_______] journey"
OF LANDS AND PEOPLE
PRELUDE
Prologue
About Me, Actually
Chapter Playlist
I. SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD
1. Symphony of the City
2. Meditation on Motorcycle
3. No Fish Sauce Please
4. On a Bicycle's Backseat
5. Sự Nhầm Lẫn Đẹp Đẽ
6. A Beautiful Accident
7. The Women Who Live
II. YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE
8. Friendship is
9. A Liberation
10. Toilet Paper En Rose
11. Hutong Afterlight
12. Roadside Hanabi
13. Longtang Night Echoes
14. Load-bearing Towels
15. On Womanhood
16. Ơ Kìa Hà Nội
17. Beneath Another Faultless Sky
III. THE INVISIBLE ABYSS
18. Someone Else's Perfect Child
19. The Worst Person at Harvard
20. Still in Kindergarten
21. Non-places
22. The Debt I Refuse to Owe
23. The Invisible Abyss
IV. CONSOLATION
24. Mother Tongue, Other Tongues
25. On my Father's Honda Dream
26. What About Hair
27. Along the Charles
28. One True Sentence
29. The Paths that Cross
30. Love Letters from Cambridge
31. On Happiness
32. Điền Vào Chỗ Trống
33. Fill in the Blank
34. The Space In-between
35. Letter to You
V. BEHIND THE SCENES
36. Who I Write for
37. How I Write what I Wrote
38. One True Word
39. On Tenses
40. Restraint versus Clarity
41. On (not) Translating
42. When Sad Writing Made me Smile
43. And When Free Writing Made me Cry
44. Notes on the Margin
..................................... on listening
.................................. on seeing
.......................................... on eating
................................... on carrying
......................................... lan man
.................................... on stumbling
....................... on death, on living
................................................. on education
........................... Paris: on hunger
........................ Beijing: on searching
............................. Kanazawa: on being
.......... Shanghai: on recognition
............ Cambridge: on holding up
........................................ on reclaiming
.............................. on missing, on fearing
.................... on first love
.......................... on money
..................... on first heart
........................................ on leaving
.................................................. on transiting
............... on filial transaction
........................ on surviving too well
.................. on true love
.............. on remembering
.......................................... on growing
..................... on running, on stopping
......................................... on playing
....................................... on timing
.................... all my loving
............................................. on happiness
............................. vạn sự tùy duyên
................................................. on living
.................................... on writing
............................... to our roaring twenties
........................................... on audience
............................. on process
............................................ on precision
............................................................ on unit
................................... on control
................................. never translate
................. on justice
.........on surprise
.............................. things i'd say irl