Amy Rhodes
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Viet, huge congratulations on the Pulitzer!! I feel like your first, proud reader :). Adding a question mark here since Goodreads insists! ?? Very exciting news, best, Amy Rhodes
Viet Thanh Nguyen
I do remember our conversation (at the Winter Institute, if I remember right). Thanks for the early review!
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Lg
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
I am deeply amazed by this book, while only on page 131. Coincidentally, last night I heard Allan Johnson speak on race and the concept of systemic perpetuations of power over/exclusion of "the other," including the example of films that diminish the characters of "non-whites" - so precisely depicted in your interchange between the narrator and the film director. Are you aware of Johnson's writings?
Rory
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Your book reminded me why I liked books, at a time of great drought of the soul. You write with passion about the driest topics, and your stories are impossible not to relate to on a human as well as an intellectual level. As an aspiring and practicing writer; if I could one day harness the capacity to put my raw thoughts to paper as powerfully and elegantly as you do, I'll call my life well-lived. When did you start?
tinaathena
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
I quite literally just finished the last pages of your book, and as you've hoped, the book has shaken me. Has this book been translated to Vietnamese? I am first-gen Viet-Canadian and this is the first time I have ever read anything that echoes the self-loathing & criticism of Vietnamese people that my father has raised me under. I would be very excited to have him read this, but can't imagine VN gladly selling it.
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