Fish Sauce and Maple Syrup
In this Montreal novel, a Vietnamese restaurant evokes a homeland November 2014
The dense cultural history of Vietnam, a history of upheaval and conflict but also of persistence and survival, serves as backdrop in Kim Thúy’s latest novel, Mãn. Thúy writes with a deep sense of the dichotomies of Vietnam’s history—the French takeover in the 1800s, the breaking apart of north and south for political…