{"product_id":"the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-9781419735110","title":"The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is \u003ci\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee (IRC).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Viet Nguyen, called \"one of our great chroniclers of displacement\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and others 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003econtributors--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reyna 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These essays reveal moments of uncertainty, resilience in the face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity, forming a compelling look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.\u003ci\u003e The Displaced \u003c\/i\u003eis also a commitment: ABRAMS will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000 annually, to the International Rescue Committee, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e List of Contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Joseph Azam \u003cbr\u003e David Bezmozgis \u003cbr\u003e Fatima Bhutto \u003cbr\u003e Thi Bui \u003cbr\u003e Ariel Dorfman \u003cbr\u003e Lev Golinkin \u003cbr\u003e Reyna Grande \u003cbr\u003e Meron Hadero \u003cbr\u003e Aleksandar Hemon \u003cbr\u003e Joseph Kertes \u003cbr\u003e Porochista Khakpour \u003cbr\u003e Marina Lewycka \u003cbr\u003e Maaza Mengiste \u003cbr\u003e Dina Nayeri \u003cbr\u003e Vu Tran \u003cbr\u003e Novuyo Rosa Tshuma \u003cbr\u003e Kao Kalia Yang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11587262\"\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Abrams Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419735110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 141973511X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO010000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC041000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832938201227,"sku":"9781419735110","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_0db20cbf-cd0b-4b13-af32-018c2ed2d871.jpg?v=1755627832","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-9781419735110","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}