Belonging Is a Complicated Thing: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

VIET THANH NGUYEN

There's a difference between having a sense of haunting that's very explicit when you know that there are ghosts there—that was growing up in the Vietnamese refugee community. Then there's another sense of haunting where you don't know the ghosts are there, but they are—and that's growing up in the United States.