{"product_id":"the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-1","title":"The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives","description":"The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines.\n\nToday 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.\n\nViet Nguyen, called “one of our great chroniclers of displacement” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker), 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 The New Yorker contributors―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.\n\nReyna 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.\n\n“There is no single refugee story, and as the editor of The Displaced, a collection of refugee writers exploring and reflecting on their experiences, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives these stories room to breath and unfurl.” ―Millions\n\nList of contributors:\nJoseph Azam\nDavid Bezmozgis\nFatima Bhutto\nThi Bui\nAriel Dorfman\nLev Golinkin\nReyna Grande\nAleksandar Hemon\nJoseph Kertes\nPorochista Khakpour\nMarina Lewycka\nMaaza Mengiste\nDina Nayeri\nVu Tran\nNovuyo Rosa Tshuma\nKao Kalia Yang\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1419729489\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.1419729489.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights, but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588915093701,"sku":"LFV.1419729489.G","price":5.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/1419729489-0_6a913813-5644-4dd6-a32f-33b81a7fae52.jpg?v=1767660851","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-1","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}