Honestly wonder how good this will be or if it will have lots of weird “both sides” vibes.
iirc he framed his intention with the book as a conversation with the diaspora at large
That was my takeaway. To a large extent, the book seemed not to be about capitalism vs communism. Those were thematic devices in an immigrant’s struggle, capitalism being America and communism being Vietnam. The protagonist is half Vietnamese, half white (French?). He’s always reflecting on how he’s able to see opposing points of view with complete clarity. Honestly once I looked up the author and saw that he’s a Vietnamese immigrant it made perfect sense.
The audio book is great, by the way. I’d give it 4/5 stars (less a star for octopus fucking)
