Viet Thanh Nguyen Dives Into How Memory Connects Us To History

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist best known for his debut novel The Sympathizer, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. His latest work, A Man of Two Faces: A memoir, a history, a memorial, follows his parents’ journey growing up in a divided Vietnam and later having to flee their chosen country when South Vietnam was defeated in 1975.