The Committed
The Committed is a 2021 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is his second novel and the sequel to his debut novel "The Sympathizer" (2015), which sold over one million copies and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "The Committed" was published by Grove Press on March 2, 2021. Reception. "The Committed" received favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Positive" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks. In its starred review, "Kirkus Reviews" wrote, "Nguyen is deft at balancing his hero's existential despair with the lurid glow of a crime saga." "Publishers Weekly", in its  starred review, praised "the narrator’s hair-raising escapes, descriptions of the Boss's hokey bar, and thoughtful references to Fanon and Césaire." "The New York Times" praised the first hundred pages of "The Committed" as "better than anything in the first novel," while regarding the second half as, "shaggy, shaggy, shaggy."