Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. My Documents by Kevin Nguyen is a coming-of-age tale about ambition and assimilation.
What We Say: “The lives of four young Vietnamese Americans are upended when a series of airport bombings cause panic in the US. When it is revealed that the suspects all have Vietnamese surnames, the new government sends Vietnamese Americans to ‘assembly centres’, a byword for detention camps. My Documents draws on the US government’s internment of Japanese Americans during WWII to paint a fictional dystopian future that seems all-too-plausible.” – Maria Padget
What They Say: “Funny, powerful, and propulsive... a moving portrait of the kind of people we become when we are trying to survive.” – Cathy Park Hong
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Maria Padget is Book Club Director at Service95
