San Jose-reared author Viet Thanh Nguyen honors his late mother's 'epic' life in his new memoir – Marin Independent Journal

Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, San Jose-reared novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become one of the leading voices of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. But he didn’t think his own story about fleeing Vietnam when he was 4 and growing up in Silicon Valley in the 1980s was compelling.

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