The displaced Refugee writers on refugee lives

Book - 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience int he face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. -- Adapted from book jacket.

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Subjects
Genres
Essays
Published
New York : Abrams Press 2018.
Language
English
Physical Description
190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781419729485
  • Introduction
  • Last, First, Middle
  • Common Story
  • Flesh and Sand
  • Perspective and What Gets Lost
  • How Succulent Food Defeated Trump's Wall Before It Has Been Built
  • Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa
  • The Parent Who Stays
  • To Walk in Their Shoes
  • God's Fate
  • Second Country
  • 13 Ways of Being an Immigrant
  • Refugees and Exiles
  • This Is What the Journey Does
  • The Ungrateful Refugee
  • A Refugee Again
  • New Lands, New Selves
  • Refugee Children: The Yang Warriors
  • List of Contributors
Review by School Library Journal Review

Edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Vietnamese American professor, this heartbreaking collection of essays humanizes the refugee experience. Accomplished writers tackle the differences between refugees and immigrants and how Donald Trump's election and Brexit influenced the perception of refugees in the United States and Europe. Most moving are tales of parents and children who left their homes for better lives yet lost so much of themselves. Contributors describe harrowing escapes, economically driven evacuations, and wartime disasters that forced them out of many countries: Mexico, Bosnia, Thailand, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Chile, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iran, Zimbabwe, China, and more. Dina Nayeri's "The Ungrateful Refugee," about childhood bullying, and Meron Hadero's "To Walk in Their Shoes," a chronicle of his parents' path from Ethiopia to Germany to Czechoslovakia to Washington, DC, will especially resonate with teens. VERDICT U.S. policy about refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants will continue to make headlines for years-this book is an essential purchase for all libraries and a must for displays on current events.-Sarah Hill, Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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