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In August we will meet to discuss A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2024).
About A Man of Two Faces:
In A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life, expanding the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America. Writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son, he explores the necessity of both forgetting and remembering and the promises that America so readily makes and breaks. This is the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.
Viet Thanh Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, was published in 2015 and won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; his second novel, The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer, was published in 2021. His short fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies since 2002, and a collection of short stories, The Refugees, was published in 2017. He has written numerous essays on refugees and refugee lives and edited the collection The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. He has also written on Vietnam in Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), which examines how the Vietnam War has been remembered, from the US to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea.
