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    Follow along with Viet Thanh Nguyen’s recommendations for Asian Pacific Heritage Month

    Jonny Diamond

    May 2, 2019, 1:44pm

    Brilliant and dashing novel-writer/essayist/very-good-reader Viet Thanh Nguyen is using his Twitter power for good and not evil by recommending a book a day for Asian Pacific Heritage Month (which is now, people). The first two recs are Jessica Hagedorn’s Dog Eaters, and Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club (more on which, from the writer herself, here).

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