The Sympathizer

 I read The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen because it won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The story is narrated by a half Vietnamese, half French boy who grows up to be a spy for the North Vietnamese army while serving in the South Vietnamese army. He is a communist sympathizer. He is never really at home with one group. His father was a priest and his mother a poor servant girl. When Saigon fell he moved with the south Vietnamese army general to Los Angeles. The story is about the Vietnam war and is, at times, very difficult and painful to read.