A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations, portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Adult Non-Fiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Buon Me Thot (Vietnam) -- Biography.
Immigrants -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971-
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971- -- Family.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Buon Me Thot -- Biography.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Buon Me Thot (Vietnam) -- Biography.
Immigrants -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971-
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, -- 1971- -- Family.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Buon Me Thot -- Biography.
San Jose (Calif.) -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Refugees.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-380)
Description
"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands 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. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICA TM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening.," --publisher's website.
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