Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of "The Sympathizer," a spy novel set in the chaos of 1975 Saigon for which Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Viet was born in Ban Me Thuot, Vietnam, and fled as a four-year-old with his family in 1975 to the U.S. as Vietnam was enveloped in the chaos of the end of the war. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews.
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