{"product_id":"the-displaced","title":"The Displaced","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a powerful and timely dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday 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 the flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II and beyond anything the world has seen in this generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear have shut the door. Even for readers seeking to help, the sheer scale of the problem renders the experience of refugees hard to comprehend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViet 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 elsewhere 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\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003econtributors--and they are all refugees, many as children arriving in London and Toronto, Oklahoma and Minnesota, South Africa and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReyna 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is no single refugee story, and as the editor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a collection of refugee writers exploring and reflecting on their experiences, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives these stories room to breath and unfurl.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMillions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eList of contributors: \u003cbr\u003eJoseph Azam\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bezmozgis\u003cbr\u003eFatima Bhutto\u003cbr\u003eThi Bui\u003cbr\u003eAriel Dorfman\u003cbr\u003eLev Golinkin\u003cbr\u003eReyna Grande\u003cbr\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Kertes\u003cbr\u003ePorochista Khakpour\u003cbr\u003eMarina Lewycka\u003cbr\u003eMaaza Mengiste\u003cbr\u003eDina Nayeri\u003cbr\u003eVu Tran\u003cbr\u003eNovuyo Rosa Tshuma\u003cbr\u003eKao Kalia Yang","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014030594298,"sku":"9781419735110","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_074257cb-8cec-42af-aa9d-de9d7a91671f.jpg?v=1786133904","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-displaced","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}