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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 (10[1])tobacco farm in a novel by an author of this ethnicity addressed to “Rose,” the mother of the narrator Little Dog. An author of this ethnicity (10[1])described (10[1])the confessions of a tortured spy in The Sympathizer. Another (10[1])author of this ethnicity wrote the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. For 10 points, name this (10[1])ethnicity of the author Ocean Vuong. ■END■ (0[2])

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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