A review by over60
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.0

This was a horror story to me. It must be because I have not enough knowledge of the Vietnamese history and ideology to connect to the characters, but as human beings their stories are a horror. Maybe that was the intent, to tell a story and have the reader know their terrible struggle - it worked. I didn't feel there was hope at the end, but there were insights that were perhaps too deep for the culturally ignorant (me). There was some personal education for me, but at a complex cost.