That’s Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in his latest ... his parents home from their grocery store and held the family at gunpoint. Nguyen’s mother ran screaming from the house.

VIET THANH NGUYEN: Yeah, the book touches on the ... very intimate relationships within our own family, for example. I’ve said in the book that sometimes the other is the one who is closest ...

Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen was among 22 individuals honored with a "genius ... States at the age of four and settled in San Jose, California, where his family opened a Vietnamese ...

Vietnamese American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote his first book in ... did that change the way that you saw your family? Growing up in a Vietnamese refugee community, it was ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer ... It's called "A Man of Two Faces," and it follows your family's history from Vietnam to the United States. What was it like to unpack your own history and your ...