To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other PG_Gift_Guide the start of the Cold

the start of the Cold War and the creation of the NATO alliance

As if she is made of hollow bones and too much air

Czechoslovakia

and Dan has an in

rather than chasing false promises of supremacy

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other PG_Gift_Guide the start of the ColdShortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up,