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100	1		_aNguyen, Viet Thanh, _d1971- _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA man of two faces : _ba memoir, a history, a memorial / _cViet Thanh Nguyen.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c2023.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. 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 Thuot 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 facade 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 Moi, 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. Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aNguyen, Viet Thanh, _d1971-
600	1	0	_aNguyen, Viet Thanh, _d1971- _xFamily.
650		0	_aVietnamese Americans _zCalifornia _zSan Jose _vBiography.
650		0	_aImmigrants _zCalifornia _zSan Jose _vBiography.
650		0	_aRefugees _zVietnam _zBuôn Mê Thuột _vBiography.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xRefugees.
651		0	_aBuôn Mê Thuột (Vietnam) _vBiography.
651		0	_aSan Jose (Calif.) _vBiography.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aNguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- _tMan of two faces _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Grove Press, [2023] _z9780802160508 _w(DLC) 2023022993
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