thank you so much to the publisher for reaching out and giving me the digital galley for this book! i enjoyed reading it.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this book!!

What a great book!! It had me hooked from page one! I couldn’t put this down. I finished it in one sitting. I enjoyed the storyline and the characters. This was a first for me by this author but it will not be my last!!

A very striking novel! My Documents starts Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan Nguyen as Vietnamese cousins (now a family). A dash of speculative fiction in introduced when the United States begins to incarcerate Vietnamese Americans in internment camps after violence has erupted. The younger family members are sent to a camp and the older, well off members receive exemptions.

Camp life is hopeless, dirty, rough and dangerous. The kids have a hard time without internet and contemporary life luxuries. Jen is able to connect with Ursula who wants to take the realities of the camps to press for her own career. Nguyen add wry humor and poignant moments from an incredibly scary premise. I found this quote from him that succinctly describes the artistic component of the story and how he keeps it from falling into despair.

"I wanted the characters — four Vietnamese half-siblings in their early twenties — all to come of age in an environment that heightens their sense of identity," Nguyen tells PEOPLE. "After all, one’s identity — especially when it comes to race — is somehow able to be marginalized or monetized or both. For some characters in the book, their ethnicity is what lands them in camp. For others, it’s what makes their career."

Pick up this book, it's a one of a kind! #randomhouse #mydocuments #kevinnguyen