Text to Go: Fatherland by Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Fatherland" is the final short story in Viet Thanh Nguyen's collection: The Refugees. It is narrated in third person, past tense, and it returns to the country of Vietnam itself. In the story, the protagonist, Phuong, is a 23 year old biology graduate who worked as a hostess at a tourist-class restaurant. She is the oldest of three siblings, who are the second set of children her father, Mr. Ly, had. Both sets of...