A Man of Two Faces Tour | New York
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series
Viet Thanh Nguyen
In Conversation with Min Jin Lee
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer, The Committed, and The Refugees) presents A Man of Two Faces — a triumphant memoir that sears through the fog of American amnesia,” writes Cathy Park Hong. “It is a fissured lyric on memory and a clarifying meditation on empire. Every American needs to read this essential book.” Expanding the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and the relationship between Vietnam and America, A Man of Two Faces is marked by Nguyen’s trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. Hear this vitally original writer — “one of our great chroniclers of displacement” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) — discuss this moving and brilliant meditation on the relationship between personal narrative and cultural power.
Location:
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave,
New York, NY 10128
