Ocean Vuong
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's the daringness.
And when I set that up as the re-elaborate that as what the classroom is for, you see the body language change.
And I'm like, oh, there you are.
And imagine being raised by someone like that.
Imagine being surrounded.
And multiply.
If you're in a community like that or a family, everything you said multiplied by eight or nine.
Everyone around you feels the same way, right?
And the deep resentment, the deep sadness.
But also, again, my stepdad worked at Standardine.
He worked at a place called Standardine.
He made a screw his whole life.
For like 30 years, he made the screw that went into gas pumps.
And that company shut down.
It went overseas.
So he's an uneducated refugee from Vietnam.
Spent seven days in a boat and went to a refugee camp.
Then came to Hartford, met my mother.
And he spent 30 years making a screw, and now he doesn't make a screw anymore.
What does he do?