The Committed (The Sympathizer #2)

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

And it struck us all then, the answer to humanity’s eternal question of Why? It was, and is, simply this: Why not?

Like most refugees we barely had any material belongings, even if our bags were packed with dreams and fantasies, trauma and pain, sorrow and loss, and, of course, ghosts. Since ghosts were weightless, we could carry an infinite number of them.