The acclaimed novel The Sympathizer, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, will be discussed at the next meeting of our new book discussion group, Reading Californians. Nguyen was the gold medal winner for first fiction in The Commonwealth Club's recent California Book Awards, which recognized the best published writing in California in 2015. Nguyen’s novel has been described as “a cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post) and “A dark funny—and Vietnamese—look at the Vietnam war” (NPR Books).

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