The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Vietnamese-American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective.
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The Vietnamese-American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective.
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Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, San Jose-reared novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become one of the leading voices of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. But he didn’t think his own story about fleeing Vietnam when he was 4 and growing up in Silicon Valley in the 1980s was compelling.
Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, San Jose-reared novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become one of the leading voices of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. But he didn’t think his own story -- about fleeing Vietnam when he was 4 and growing up in Silicon Valley in the 1980s -- was compelling enough when it came time to write his memoir.
The poems in Lan Duong's debut collection offer a personal view of a momentous time in Bay Area history.