Art Rodriguez describes his teenage years growing up in San Jose, California, discussing his difficult relationship with his father, his great love for his mother, his years in a youth prison, and the birth of his first child.

Follow this young adult when he is released from the California Youth Authority. Read and find that he marries and only finds sadness and hurt. Go with him as he becomes a businessman and at the same time toys with organized crime.

"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...