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Hystopia

July 15, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: After a Vietnam vet’s suicide, his mother discovered a manuscript of a novel that seemed to take place in a reality just next to their own, about Vietnam and the plight of returning vets. But even the vet’s reality is one far removed from our own, where JFK survived six assassination attempts and held a third term – and where returning vets were “enfolded” to help process their PTSD… The Review: I had such high hopes for this […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Alternate History, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, David Means, Dystopia, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Hystopia, Literature, Reviews, Vietnam

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The Sympathizer

March 9, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Captured by an enemy force, an unnamed solider – a communist double agent working first in South Vietnam and then living, after the fall, in America – recounts what is supposed to be his confession. But what he actually confesses to is far more complicated than even he realizes. The Review: There comes a moment, about halfway into this novel – a moment that’s more like an extended interlude – where our narrator ends up working on a […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Literature, Reviews, The Sympathizer, The Tournament of Books 2016, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam, Vietnam War

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