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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
This is the first time I've heard about your book. I like it because of the Multicultural angle. I've read about Lowell, Massachusett's manufacturing period. Why did you choose to write about Lowell, Mass. ? Is there a large Vietnamese community living there?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
sorry, I didn't write about Lowell. The question was whether I'd been to Lowell.
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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.
Jimmy
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Mr. Nguyen, I taught English as a second language to ARVN soldiers. I now wonder about what they went through after the collapse of Saigon. Do you know of any nonfiction books that make an accounting of what re-education camps were like, how many people were executed or imprisoned, and what the citizens of South Vietnam faced when the North took over?
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