Neha and Shruti discuss The Sympathizer, the 2016 Pulitzer winner for fiction, through the themes of loyalty and duality. This book is a thriller and a satire, following a mixed race narrator who moves to the United States after the fall of Saigon, and must navigate his identity and his role as a communist spy. We talk about the book's historical context, its commentary on race and pop culture, and more.
Links:
Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen [NPR]
Shelf Discovery:
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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