An unconventional memoir with insight, humor, formal invention and lyricism by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen in A Man of Two Faces, rewinds the film of his own life wrestling with dual identity, entwining his family experience with racism, refugeehood and colonisation and ideas of 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 Me Thu?t and come to … Continue reading How can you be American and Vietnamese, “both the killer and the person being killed”?