Friday Explorations Read Aloud: The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, read by Joseph Coté

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the librarys YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and nonfiction. This is a program to help keep our community connected to books during the pandemic when we are unable to meet in person. For May 13, Coté will read aloud from the awardwinning novel The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This program is part of the librarys salute to Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Summary: The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a man of two minds, a halfFrench, halfVietnamese army