viet thanh nguyen is, the sympathizer. historically factual. is it based on experience or is this come out of here? almost everything that happens in the sympathizer happened in real life and one of the interesting things that that i come across is when people read it or watch the tv series and they're like, hollywood just made that up. but no, this really happened. and of course, what we can as human beings is so incredibly weird that we can't believe that these things actually took place. what does come out of me, however are the emotions within the sympathizer. those are my emotions. i want to read from a man of two faces. to be creative without being critical risks, being a lack of politics is the politics of the dominant literary world. many american writers to certain open seeks books, the open secrets dearest acknowledge its presence. if tell on the open secret, we anger the many who do not. it called out the open secret of america trademark is that white people founded it on colonization, genocide, slavery, war, and white supremacy, all