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This month marks 50 years since the United States withdrew from Vietnam. While the...

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To this Vietnamese refugee, the French are so charming, and they are such tyrants.

10 New Books We Recommend This Week March 4, 2021 We recommend six novels this week, among them a romantic comedy about frozen yogurt, a look at life in the Airbnb age, and the sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer.” In nonfiction, we like four books that touch on various aspects of race in America, including a memoir by a Black woman who was raised by white parents, an analysis of the harm that racism inflicts on society at large, and two biographies: one about ...

CBS News The Book Report: Reviews from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (February 28) By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles This cold winter has delivered a long shelf of fascinating new books. Here are just a few you might enjoy:  Grove Press In 2015, Viet Thanh Nguyen published his first novel, "The Sympathizer," about a communist spy who flees Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and leads a double life in America. That fantastic novel won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Now, N...

In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American Embassy but eventually got on a barge, then a ship. He can’t remember anything about the escape, other than soldiers on their ship firing at refugees who were approaching in a smaller boat. The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen 345 pages GROVE PRESS It is Nguyen’s only childhood memory from Vietnam, and he isn’t sure if ...

In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American embassy but eventually got on a barge, then a ship. He can’t remember anything about the escape, other than soldiers on their ship firing at refugees who were approaching in a smaller boat. It is Nguyen’s only childhood memory from Vietnam, and he isn’t sure if it really happened or if it came from something he read in...