The Refugees

The second piece of fiction from the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is a collection of powerful stories written over a period of twenty years, set in Vietnam and America. In The Refugees Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people forced to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family ties that accompany relocation. From the culture shock of a young Vietnamese man transported to bohemian San Francisco, to the heartache of a woman whose dementia-suffering husband starts to confuse her with a former lover, the stories vividly capture the fierce emotions and numerous hardships of migration. Beautifully written and sharply observed, The Refugees is a modern classic from one of America's most brilliant contemporary writers.