“Saigon had also changed names after it changed hands, but they couldn’t bring themselves to call it Ho Chi Mind City. Neither could the taxi driver who ferried them from their hotel to the house, even though he was too young to remember a time when the city was officially Saigon.”

“Saigon had also changed names after it changed hands, but they couldn’t bring themselves to call it Ho Chi Mind City. Neither could the taxi driver who ferried them from their hotel to the house, even though he was too young to remember a time when the city was officially Saigon.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen