We the Readers: The Sympathizer
Tue, Nov 03
|Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library with a search for The Great American Novel.
Time & Location
Nov 03, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA
About the Event
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library with a search for The Great American Novel.
This month we are reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, published 2015.
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration o…