What are you reading this week of December 18, 2016?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Finished The Best of Everything.

Really, really good, although I'm not sure many men would like it, and anyone born after 1980 or so might not identify with the women in it. I could because I'm only a decade or so younger, and things were very much the same for me in my 20s as it was for them at that age.

Now I'm reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam and grew up in the U.S. The narrator of the novel is half French, half Vietnamese man who is a Communist sleeper agent who goes to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon. The format is that he is back in Vietnam and is writing an extended confession. It's incredibly good. My brief description doesn't begin to do it justice.

Oh, and the book won the Pulitzer Prize.