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Author Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.

Uniform Title Short stories. Selections
Title The refugees / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, [2017]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1781384~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F NGUYEN    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F NGUYEN    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F NGUYEN    AVAILABLE
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Description vii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Black-eyed women -- The other man -- War years -- The transplant -- I'd love you to want me -- The Americans -- Someone else besides you -- Fatherland.
Summary "The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration".
Subject Vietnamese -- United States -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Genre Short stories.
ISBN 9780802126399
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