A review by fusioncup2000
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

Read while in/leaving Vietnam. I could not tear myself away. Nguyen writes with beautiful and evocative prose. The way he wove his memories together and tied it into a commentary on American society and Asian/Asian-American culture: I was confronted with a lot of my own thoughts about my experience, and the factors at play in forming them. The part about losing your mother tongue interwoven with his memories of his mother made me cry on the plane from Hanoi to Beijing. I could feel the love that he holds for both of his parents. Good insights and recs for reading material on decolonization, explicit leftist perspectives - can't ask for much more from a book.