Steve
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Have you ever visited Lowell, Massachusetts where there's a large Vietnamese population? I've recently read your book and, in growing up in a town near Lowell, and have memories from my early years when the first large influx of Vietnamese immigrants started to migrate to Lowell; your novel has put some of these memories in a different perspective! Steve
Viet Thanh Nguyen
I have visited, briefly, the college campus there. But didn't see the Vietnamese community itself.
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Margarita
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
The Refugees is a stunning collection of stories. Thank you! Question: The family in the first story has been visited by a ghost. How do ghosts figure in Vietnamese American culture? I am Hispanic and was once told by my grandmother that if I was ever visited by a dead relative, that I shouldn't be scared, and I believe I was visited once by my grandmother shortly after her death. That story really resonated.
Autumn
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Wanted to say that I have used your book "Nothing ever dies" quite often in both of my thesis dealing with Gestational trauma of Vietnamese refugees. One of them specifically for Thi Bui's "The Best We Could Do". I was wondering if you would ever be interested in writing some more theory on subjects of mental health?
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