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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 called “the remedy” throughout Paris in the 2021 novel The Committed. The protagonist has sex with the drug addict Trevor while living on a New England tobacco (10[1])farm in a novel by (10[1])an author of this ethnicity addressed to “Rose,” the mother of the narrator Little Dog. An author of (10[1])this ethnicity (10[1])described the confessions of a tortured spy in The Sympathizer. Another (10[1])author 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 ethnicity of the author Ocean Vuong. ■END■ (10[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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Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)GWU A (UG)6310
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)Liberty B (DII)6810
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)Virginia C (UG)8610
Kristy Lau (DII)Virginia B (UG)Liberty A (Grad)8810
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)JMU A (UG)9910
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
Annie Goodman (Grad)GWU B (Grad)Roanoke College A (DII)13210
Kevin Jiang (UG)Duke A (UG)Maryland C (DII)13210
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)UNC B (UG)13210