East Eats West Quotes

“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories, fused by his new eyes and imagination, and he needed to tell those stories if he ever hoped to be whole again.”
― Andrew Lam, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres

“With few exceptions, the white man leads, the minority character follows -- for such is the shape of the culture and the unwritten rule taught subliminally not so long ago, a curse of superior-inferior fiction that many ingested as fact.”
― Andrew Lam, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres

“When one loses someone one loves, with whom one shares a private life, a private language, a private world, one loses an entire country, one becomes an exile.”
― Andrew Lam, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres