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How might a greater confidence in free will over fate have benefited or disadvantaged the novel’s characters?
How might the fate of Diệu Lan and her children have been better or worse had she heeded Tú’s advice and fled to the South?
This is Nguyễn’s first English-language publication. Defend or critique her decision to write this story in the language of one of modern Vietnam’s greatest oppressors.
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