Question

An author of this ethnicity wrote the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places seven years after the death of her abusive husband Dennis Hayslip. An author of this ethnicity created a narrator who trafficks a drug (10[1])called “the remedy” throughout Paris in the 2021 (10[1])novel The Committed. (10[3])The protagonist (10[1])has sex with the drug addict Trevor while living (10[2])on a New England (10[3])tobacco (10[2])farm in a novel by (10[1])an author of this ethnicity (10[1])addressed to “Rose,” the mother of the narrator (10[1])Little Dog. An author of (10[1])this (10[1])ethnicity (10[2])described (10[1])the confessions of a tortured spy in The Sympathizer. (10[4])Another (10[2])author (10[1])of this ethnicity (10[1])wrote the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (-5[1])and the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this (10[1])ethnicity of the author Ocean Vuong. ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

ANSWER: Vietnamese [or Vietnamese American; prompt on Asian American] (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is by Le Ly Hayslip. The Committed and The Sympathizer are by Viet Thanh Nguyen.)
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Pranav VeluriBerkeley BStanford B3610
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (DII)NYU AColumbia B4410
Tim MorrisonStanford ABerkeley C4710
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford C4710
Jacky XuCornell BBinghamton4710
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsHaverford4910
Raymond WangCornell ARIT A5810
Andrew HannaPennVassar5810
William DawsonUBC ASorbonne6210
Roxanne Tang (UG)Ohio State AMichigan C6210
Jack LewisMTSUTennessee6210
Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)GWU A (UG)6310
Bryan UgazArizona StateIowa State6310
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)Liberty B (DII)6810
Joel MilesMinnesota BMinnesota C7310
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicAlabama8110
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)Virginia C (UG)8610
Bryanna ShaoVanderbilt ASouth Carolina8710
Kristy Lau (DII)Virginia B (UG)Liberty A (Grad)8810
Jisoon YooTexas AIowa B8810
Isaac OlsonUW AIowa A8910
Biyang Zhang (DII)Michigan BOhio State B9810
Moses KitakuleColumbia AJohn Jay9810
Andre WongColumbia CNYU B9810
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech AHarding9810
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)JMU A (UG)9910
Kevin ParkClaremont ATexas A&M B9910
Andrew EllisKentuckyVanderbilt B10010
Emily Bussa (UG)Maryland B (UG)William & Mary A (UG)10310
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)UNC D (DII)112-5
Dixie Lumsden (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)GWU B (Grad)120-5
Andrew HarmsMichigan State ATexas A&M A12510
Cade ReinbergerRIT BCornell C1320
Elizabeth LarkinCornell CRIT B13210
Kevin Jiang (UG)Duke A (UG)Maryland C (DII)13210
Annie Goodman (Grad)GWU B (Grad)Roanoke College A (DII)13210
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)UNC B (UG)13210
Rahul KumarRice AAppalachian State1320
Cameron WilliamsAppalachian StateRice A1320