Viet Thanh Nguyen w/ Shawn Wong

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book with fellow author and scholar Shawn Wong at the Seattle Public Library. To Save and to Destroy is a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking [...]