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My Documents: A Novel
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The Paths Of Four Family Members Diverge Drastically When The U.S. Government Begins Detaining Vietnamese Americans, In This Rich, Gripping Novel That Lands Squarely As A Mirror Of Our Contemporary Moral Squalor (Los Angeles Times).Comically Macabre . . . Nguyen [Is] A Stellar Satirist Who Takes Bold Imaginative Risks.The New York Times (Editors Choice)A Best Book Of The Year: Time, The New Yorker, Esquireursula, Alvin, Jen, And Duncan Grew Up As Cousins In The Sprawling Nguyen Family. As Young Adults, TheyRe On The Precipice Of New Ventures: Ursula As A Budding Journalist In Manhattan, Alvin As An Engineering Intern For Google, Jen As A Nave Freshman At Nyu, And Duncan As A Promising Newcomer On His High School Football Team. Their Lives Are Upended When A Series Of Violent, Senseless Attacks Across America Creates A National Panic, Prompting A Government Policy That Pushes Vietnamese Americans Into Internment Camps. Jen And Duncan Are Sent With Their Mother To Camp Tacoma While Ursula And Alvin Receive Exemptions.Cut Off Entirely From The Outside World, Forced To Work Jobs They Hate, Jen And Duncan Try To Withstand Long, Dusty Days In Camp And Acclimate To Life Without The Internet. That Is, Until Jen Discovers A Way To Get Messages To The Outside. Her First Instinct Is To Reach Out To Ursula, Who Sees This Connection As A Chance To Tell The World About The Horrors Of CampAnd As An Opportunity To Bolster Her Own Reporting Career In The Process.Informed By RealLife Events, From Japanese Incarceration To The Vietnam War And ModernDay Immigrant Detention, Kevin NguyenS Novel Gives Us A Version Of Reality Only A Few Degrees Away From Our Own. Moving And Finely Attuned To Both The Brutalities And Mundanities Of Racism, M Documents Is A Strangely Funny And Touching Portrait Of American Ambition, Fear, And Family. The Story Of The Nguyens Is One Of Resilience And How We Return To One Another, And To Ourselves, After Tragedy.
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