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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs. Today, remembering the Vietnam War.

The panic has swept from the coastal cities crowded back streets and pagodas onto runways at the airport.

Our plane is surrounded here. I don't know how the hell we're going to get out.

We're racing down the runway, leaving behind hundreds and thousands of people.

Forty years ago, on April 30, 1975, the U.S. pulled its last soldiers out of Vietnam.

Some people call it Black April. And Vietnam, it's known as Reunification Day.

Today, we're still fighting over the legacy of that war and what it means for today's

American wars.

But what does that war mean for the Vietnamese themselves, for those who won, and also for

the refugees who fled to the U.S.?

Well, that's the subject of a remarkable new novel by Vietan Wynne.

He's a Vietnamese American writer whose own family fled the country during Black April.

His novel The Sympathizer is part spy thriller, part black comedy,

and it's narrated by a double agent who works for a South Vietnamese general

while also serving as an undercover operative for the communists.

Steve Paulson asked Vietan Wynne to read a passage from the book.

I'm a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I'm also a man of two minds.

I'm not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie,

although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.

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