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The Displaced

Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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"Powerful and deeply moving personal stories about the physical and emotional toll one endures when forced out of one's homeland." —PBS Online
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. Though the refugee caps have been raised under President Biden, admissions so far have fallen short.
 
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.
"One of the Ten Best Books of the Year." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Together, the stories share similar threads of loss and adjustment, of the confusion of identity, of wounds that heal and those that don't, of the scars that remain." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Poignant and timely, these essays ask us to live with our eyes wide open during a time of geo-political crisis. Also, 10% of the cover price of the book will be donated annually to the International Rescue Committee, so I hope readers will help support this book and the vast range of voices that fill its pages." —Electric Literature

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  • Release date

    March 31, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781683352075
      • File size: 1840 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781683352075
      • File size: 3108 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      Starred review from September 1, 2018

      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 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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