To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) | Viet Thanh Nguyen Children's Literature sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing

sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home

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Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby

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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) | Viet Thanh Nguyen Children's Literature sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothingFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes 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