 Kien Nguyen

Kien Nguyen (; born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1967) is an author who was born to a Vietnamese mother, a banker from a once wealthy family, and an American civil engineer.His mother's family, who had lost their wealth when the Americans left Vietnam, lived among neighbors who treated them as pariahs because of their background connected to the Americans, which the communist government had seen as evil capitalists.