Tag: independence

Losing My Son to Reading

August 4, 2018

Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his feelings on the independence reading provides in relation to his young son in this opinion piece for The New York Times. Books helped me gain independence.

Cover of The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen humanizes in ‘The Refugees’

March 9, 2017

Daily Arts Writer Samantha Lu reviews ‘The Refugees’. Originally published in Michigan Daily. It takes a certain type of genius to write endings the way Viet Thanh Nguyen does: with