# Chang-rae Lee and Viet Thanh Nguyen: National Book Festival 2021

Chang-rae Lee, author of "My Year Abroad" (Riverhead), and Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of "The Committed" (Grove), discuss their early experiences as immigrants to the United States, the complexities of displacement and belonging, and the various ways their novels confront history and culture, with Elizabeth Blair, senior producer/reporter on the NPR News arts desk. Bonus content: Ryan Wolfson-Ford, Southeast Asia reference librarian from the Asian Division, describes the Library's collection of works from Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697646/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024697646?play=1)