No terms by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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the aroma of our own contradictions
I met Bon on the other side of passport control. We had at …
colonies were a pearl choker
[...] Oh, Saigon, Pearl of the Orient! Or so it was called,…
an acknowledgment of one’s cultural inferiority
But it seemed bad manners to bring up these issues when all…
my neighbor got up and moved to another seat
I was in no condition to talk about plans or think about th…
judging the revolution too soon
We learn from those mistakes. You yourself are making a mis…