Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility | Som-Mai Nguyen
…I took in the viciousness with which it attacked all sorts of French and all sorts of Vietnamese, and I missed my dead grandfather, scowling at and marking up newspapers for fun while I flipped through novels at the foot of his bed. I might (I would never) write of my grandfather: “In Vietnamese, I MISS YOU glosses almost the same as I REMEMBER YOU. TO MISS: to remember. The latter, literally, can go I ARRIVE AT REMEMBERING YOU. I recall. I call you back.” Real eyes realize real lies!
Savagery.