Book Review: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Authors

Diane Niblack Fox, College of the Holy Cross

Abstract

Nothing ever dies. Not the memories of war, not its trauma, not its controversies--and not the hope that we can one day extricate our present from our traumatic pasts in order to create a more peaceful future. This hope threads through Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The book is about war, identity, and memory, Nguyen tells us. His goal is to “beat….hearts back to life.” Our hearts, the hearts of the generations wounded, in different ways and to different extents, by war.

Recommended Citation

Niblack Fox, Diane (2020) "Book Review: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War," The Journal of Social Encounters: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, 78-80.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol4/iss1/10