![]() And then as a writer and a scholar I have been trying to remember what those things mean.” ![]() “That’s when memory begins, and that’s when forgetting begins for me as well, because I spent much of my life trying to forget that experience of separation and of trauma - and trying to forget what it meant to lose a country. Eventually he reunited with his mother and father, but that early experience as a refugee marked him “indelibly.” After fleeing war-torn Vietnam with his parents for the United States in 1975, Nguyen was sent to live with a white sponsor family near Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen was 4 when he first started trying to forget. And his prose brings those conflicts to life. He is haunted by conflict between country and culture, revolution and redemption, embrace and exclusion, and, perhaps most of all, between a yearning to remember and the urge not to. ![]()
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