A review by ivysinconsistentreads
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.0

The part where it was revealed that the Commissioner was Man was a rollercoaster. Nguyen does a great job at incorporating the moral conflicts he has between his two identities and the obstacles that he runs into while providing information to Man to update him of the South Vietnamese nationalist movement to take back Saigon. I however didn't like the graphic scenes and skipped over them, although some pages may have been crucial for context, but overall it was introspective and as a fellow Viet-American hit home for me when I read the part where he described the Vietnamese community as isolated because neither countries, the USA or Vietnam, accept them due to fleeing or maintaining loyalty to the VC.