Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Best-selling author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to Jan Crawford about his new novel, out this week. "The Committed," a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer," continues the story of the refugee narrator from Nguyen's first book. The novels have earned him the description as "a conscience of American literature."
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