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Such a good read. Gonna have to keep an eye out for her memoir. There's starting to be a flourishing of SE Asian voices with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong.
by hardwaregeek 5y ago
Such a good read. Gonna have to keep an eye out for her memoir. There's starting to be a flourishing of SE Asian voices with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong. I hope more come, especially more women. Hopefully more cinema too; it'd be wonderful to have responses to the America centric and sympathetic portrayals of Vietnam.
- hirenj 5y agoCoincidentally, I read this amusing story about Ocean Vuong responding to students who were perplexed by his writing this very morning: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/11/what-the-hell-is-an-hsc-exam-oet-ocean-vuong-pokes-fun-at-perplexed-australian-students https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/11/what-...