Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal.
From the playful mind of Viet’s then 5-year old son Ellison came the story for Chicken of the Sea, about chickens who become pirates. Viet elaborated on Ellison’s idea, while Thi Bui and her 13-year old son Hien illustrated this fowl epic.
Powerful dispatches from seventeen refugee writers who shed light on the individual lives behind current headlines.
A collection of perfectly formed stories exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
“Beautifully written, powerfully argued, thoughtful, provocative.”—Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars.
The Sympathizer is a spy thriller, historical novel and black comedy that Maxine Hong Kingston calls “a magnificent feat of storytelling.”
A study of how literature has grappled with the place of Asian Americans in the United States since the late 19th century.
Cutting-edge essays about the flows of people, ideas, and commerce across the Pacific. Transpacific Studies names an exciting new field.
“The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence and the Novel”…(read more)
“Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Victimized Body” was…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Grove/Atlantic published his novel The Sympathizer in 2015 (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize), and will publish his short story collection The Refugees in 2017. He also wrote Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Full bio here.
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