Recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, writer and educator Viet Thanh Nguyen takes part in a discussion about his family coming to the United States as refugees during the Vietnam War in 1975 and how a lack of Vietnamese representation in stories about the war inspired him to write about the war from a Vietnamese perspective, globally reimagining what we thought we knew about the conflict. The New York Times says that his novel, The Sympathizer, “fills a void…giving voice to the previously voiceless while it compels the rest of us to look at the events of forty years ago in a new light.” Viet’s book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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