The Committed (The Sympathizer #2)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

we wanted to want for nothing!

the seduction of subjugation.

I am resolved on an undertaking that has no model and will have no imitator. I want to show my fellow-men a man in all the truth of nature; and this man is to be myself … As to whether nature did well or ill to break the mould in which I was cast, that is something no one can judge until after they have read me.

I wondered what the reason was for my certainly dubious and perhaps unnecessary existence.

A self-fulfilling prophecy.