in about 20 minutes, you'll hear from author marie arana talking. her book, latino land. but in the meantime, we are on our book tv set here in the convention center by viet tan to win. he is pulitzer prize winning author of the sympathizer, which came out in 2016. but his newest book is a memoir, a of two faces. you also it a memorial. what do you mean by that? peter is such a pleasure to be here with you on c-span tv. well, it's a book that about me, but mostly about my parents. the occasion for writing the memoir was when my mother passed away in 2018. i don't think i would have ever have dared to write a memoir, would have included her life and my father's before she passed away. so the book is a testament to her a memorial, her, and to everything that she lived through, everything that she accomplished in the book. they are referred to as bob marley the sea. and my saying that correctly. ma had a little bit of a rough time in her later life, didn't. she was a very successful. she came out of poverty in a rural in vietnam, became a refugee, made a fortune twice. and t

in about 20 minutes, you'll hear from author marie arana talking. her book, latino land.but in the meantime, we are on our book tv set here in the convention center by viet tan to win. he is pulitzer prize winning author of the sympathizer, which came out in 2016. but his newest book is a memoir, a of two faces. you also it a memorial. what do you mean by that? peter is such a pleasure to be here with you on c-span tv. well, it's a book that about me, but mostly about my parents. the occasion for writing the memoir was when my mother passed away in 2018. i don't think i would have ever have dared to write a memoir, would have included her life and my father's before she passed away. so the book is a testament to her a memorial, her, and to everything that she lived through, everything that she accomplished in the book. they are referred to as bob marley the sea. and my saying that correctly. ma had a little bit of a rough time in her later life, didn't. she was a very successful. she came out of poverty in a rural in vietnam, became a refugee, made a fortune twice. and th