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Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am
Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory The Fall of Saigon and the Aftermath
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am
Greg Iles and Scott Turow in Conversation Jack London Room
Greg Iles and Scott Turow Viet Thanh Ngyuyen’s writings, both fiction and scholarly, have won him numerous distinctions
Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am including a MacArthur Genius Award. Nguyen and his family fled to America from South Vietnam
John Steinbeck Room when he was four years old. The refugee and immigrant experience is central to Nguyen’s fiction, and he
weaves pieces of his own story into his short story collection The Refugees. Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer
Let’s see...two of America’s best-selling novelists with over thirty
titles to their names and millions of copies sold...what could they won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. Nguyen and Dr. Khoi Le, a noted cardiologist at Eisenhower
possibly have to talk about? Let’s hear what these two smart and Medical Center and Vietnamese immigrant, will explore the concepts of “otherness” and “duplicity” from
prolific writers think about and how they get their stories to move the immigrant perspective and share their experiences of life after the Fall of Saigon.
from an idea to a best-selling book.
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