This is a passage from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “I’d Love You to…
This is a passage from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “I’d Love You to Want Me” (108-121). What is this an example of? By the fifth evening, the only sounds besides the waves slapping at the hull were children whimpering and adults praying to God, Buddha, and their ancestors. The professor hadn’t prayed. Instead, he had stood at the ship’s bow as if he were at his lectern, the children huddled together at his knees for protection against the evening wind, and told them lies. (115)
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