<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:c07fa5b3-f323-4045-b1ad-de823d90bd1a" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="p58"/> <h1 class="author">VIET THANH NGUYEN</h1> <p class="center spaceabove1 spacebelow1 largest">■</p> <h1 class="essaytitle">On True War Stories</h1> <p class="center "><span class="smallcaps">FROM</span> <em>The Massachussetts Review</em></p> <p class="left spaceabove1"><em>An excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s original personal essay</em> On True War Stories, <em>with graphic illustrations by Matt Huynh.</em></p> <a id="p59"/> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <div class="full "> <img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019-3" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019-3.png"/></div> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <a id="p60"/> <div class="full "> <img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_081_1a" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_081_1a.jpg"/><img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_081_1b" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_081_1b.jpg"/></div> <a id="p61"/> <a id="p62"/> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <div class="full "> <img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_083_1" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_083_1.jpg"/></div> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <a id="p63"/> <div class="full "> <img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_084_1" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_084_1.jpg"/></div> <a id="p64"/> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <div class="full "> <img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_085_1a" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_085_1a.jpg"/><img alt=" " id="fig_BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_085_1b" src="images/BestAmericanNonRequiredReading2019_085