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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

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 ..................................... 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

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