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Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Committed

THE COMMITTED follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There, he and his blood brother, Bon, try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise. However, the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen.

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Week of March 28, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of March 29th include BLIND TIGER by Sandra Brown, a rousing and suspenseful novel set in the year 1920, when Prohibition is the new law of the land --- but murder, mayhem, lust and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capital of Texas; GOOD COMPANY, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney's warm and incisive novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship; THE FINAL TWIST, Jeffery Deaver’s third thriller starring Colter Shaw, which finds the expert tracker taking on his most personal case to date --- a mission that his father began years ago; EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN ITS TIME, in which Jenna Bush Hager shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life; and TOM STOPPARD, Hermione Lee's absorbing biography of one of our greatest living playwrights, which draws on a wealth of new materials and many conversations with him.

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