{"product_id":"the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-9781419735110","title":"The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is \u003ci\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis: 68.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to South Sudan and Syria, a figure worse than the flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II and beyond anything the world has seen in this generation. Yet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear seem poised to shut the door. Even for readers seeking to help, the sheer scale of the problem renders the experience of refugees hard to comprehend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Viet Nguyen, called \"one of our great chroniclers of displacement\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and elsewhere to make their stories heard. They are formidable in their own right--MacArthur Genius grant recipients, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, filmmakers, speakers, lawyers, professors, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003econtributors--and they are all refugees, many as children arriving in London and Toronto, Oklahoma and Minnesota, South Africa and Germany. Their 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reyna Grande questions the line between \"official\" refugee and \"illegal\" immigrant, chronicling the disintegration of the family forced to leave her behind; Fatima Bhutto visits Alejandro Iñárritu's virtual reality border crossing installation \"Flesh and Sand\"; Aleksandar Hemon recounts a gay Bosnian's answer to his question, \"How did you get here?\"; Thi Bui offers two uniquely striking graphic panels; David Bezmozgis writes about uncovering new details about his past and attending a hearing for a new refugee; and Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang recalls the courage of children in a camp in Thailand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is no single refugee story, and as the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of refugee writers exploring and reflecting on their experiences, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives these stories room to breath and unfurl.\" --\u003ci\u003eMillions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eList of contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Joseph Azam \u003cbr\u003e David Bezmozgis \u003cbr\u003e Fatima Bhutto \u003cbr\u003e Thi Bui \u003cbr\u003e Ariel Dorfman \u003cbr\u003e Lev Golinkin \u003cbr\u003e Reyna Grande \u003cbr\u003e Meron Hadero \u003cbr\u003e Aleksandar Hemon \u003cbr\u003e Joseph Kertes \u003cbr\u003e Porochista Khakpour \u003cbr\u003e Marina Lewycka \u003cbr\u003e Maaza Mengiste \u003cbr\u003e Dina Nayeri \u003cbr\u003e Vu Tran \u003cbr\u003e Novuyo Rosa Tshuma \u003cbr\u003e Kao Kalia Yang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605791576338,"sku":"9781419735110","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2d7de52-4835-4362-bc0f-38ac3fc17c2f.jpg?v=1732283034","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-9781419735110","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}