I was invisible
Christian Lorentzen: Viet Thanh Nguyen, 18 November 2021
“... narrator in hospital. (I never expected to see that character reborn as a caricature of Francis Ford Coppola.) Recalling his first experience of masturbation, Nguyen’s narrator describes using a squid from his mother’s kitchen, an entertaining twist on Portnoy and the liver. The Committed expands on these allusions. Games of Russian roulette are a play ... ”