Date: October 22, 2023
Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC
Partners: DC Public Library, Penguin Random House, Vietnam Society
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen discussed his memoir A Man of Two Faces in conversation with Lysley Tenorio. Blending memoir and cultural critique, Nguyen reflected on memory, displacement, and the contradictions of identity as a Vietnamese refugee in America.
The event drew a packed audience and closed the year’s literary programming with a deeply personal conversation on storytelling, truth, and belonging.
