The Displaced, Viet Thanh Nguyen Editor
The Displaced, Viet Thanh Nguyen Editor
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The Displaced
Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)

Narrator: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2018

Synopsis

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained.In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.

About Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)

Viet Thanh Nguyen 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Inderjit on January 26, 2020

This collection of stories from prominent writers and public figures is a brilliant dissection and exploration of what it means to be a refugees it all of its guises; from Raja who feels like a refugee in his own country following the annexation of Palestine by Israel, to Dina who feels weighed down......more

Goodreads review by Aoi on July 21, 2018

Some seriously powerful stuff going on here!......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on April 14, 2022

So I have to confess something that I realized when I picked up this book. Hopefully I can explain this without sounding too terrible, but I noticed that I had a kind of "refugee trope" in my head, where I expected a sort of 3-act structure for stories about refugee's, e.g. Act 1. suffering in count......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 17, 2020

This is not a book for feeling comfortable about one's beliefs and experiences, but it is an important book for empathy-building. I think most Americans would have something to think about as they read it, since many of our ancestors will have experienced similar feelings of outsider-ness when they......more

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