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The Refugees is a short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the.
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Edit Cast Series cast summary: Natalia Tena Emma 7 episodes, David Leon Ana 7 episodes, Ken Appledorn Luis 7 episodes, Jonathan D. Gloria 7 episodes, Morgan Symes Christian 7 episodes, Will Keen Samuel 7 episodes, Gary Piquer Hugo 7 episodes, Brendan Price Sara 4 episodes, Ben Temple Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read an advance copy. View all 47 comments. Apr 15, J. Sutton rated it really liked it. Viet Thanh Nguyen's 8-story collection in The Refugees focuses on Vietnamese refugees in complex, interesting and sometimes surprising ways.
What's clear is that the immigrant experience is as unique as each individual. As characters move between families, cultures and identities, the pull of what's left behind or forgotten shapes them as much as experiences in their new culture. Discarded memories, whether voluntarily discarded or not, thus become ghosts which prevent any comfortable staking out of identity, either individually, in families or in a couple who have grown old together. Our narrator is a ghost-writer for memoirs so memory is the cornerstone of this story as well. While I had my favorites, the story collection works together and is recommended!
He gave a timely keynote on the value of immigrants in this country! View all 4 comments. I love short stories.
They seem to be incredibly difficult to write, to put everything in just a few pages and connect to the reader as well. Done well, I find them incredible and that was one of the first things I noticed when I started reading this collection, the writing is fantastic. Excellent writing itself makes me want to trust the writer, puts me at ease, surely he knows what he is doing, he writes so well?
Then the content, the situations presented have to draw one in, present a I love short stories. Then the content, the situations presented have to draw one in, present a complete picture, make me want to continue reading. These did that too, and brilliantly. The stories in this collection have a common theme, as the title suggests they are refugees from Vietnam whom have made their way to the United States. They are all very good but two in particular I keep thinking about. One is War Room, a young boy, twelve years old is our narrator, his parents now own a grocery store and he must work there every day after school.
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He tells the story of a woman coming to the store to collect money to send to those fighting the Communists in Viet Nam, how his mother reacts and how and why her viewpoint changes as the story progresses. The second is I want you to want me, about a family with young children who escaped from Vietnam and have had a fairly successful life.
The woman is our narrator, she works at her local library, a job she loves, go figure, but her husband is slowly sinking into Alzheimer disease and she is his main caretaker. What propels this story is that he begins to call her a different name, a name she has never heard of before, and the women begins to believe he had a life she knew nothing about.
Taut and perceptive, this story is one that impressed itself in my mind. Don't quite know why. I have never read the much awarded novel, The Sympathizer, by this author, but will now make it a point to do so. The last book I finished in and it was a very good one. ARC from publisher. Publishes February 7th. View all 22 comments.
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I haven't read this author's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer , so I was glad to have the opportunity to read this short volume of stories to get a feel for his writing and now I will for sure read it. The author immediately with captivating writing invites you to meet not just the characters in the present, but we learn about their pasts as well. We meet the ghosts, their families, the culture, the country of of their birth - Vietnam , and inevitably the undercurrent of the war's I haven't read this author's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer , so I was glad to have the opportunity to read this short volume of stories to get a feel for his writing and now I will for sure read it.
We meet the ghosts, their families, the culture, the country of of their birth - Vietnam , and inevitably the undercurrent of the war's impact on their lives. The stories are not connected by common characters but yet these stories are connected by the common experience of the characters who survived the war in Vietnam and have found their way to America.
However, that is not the focus of every story. It is not just about being in America as refugees, but about universal themes of finding one's identity, coming to terms with the past, facing dementia, family dynamics. I was really taken by the writing of these eight distinct stories. I enjoyed all of them but my favorites were "Black-eyed Women", about a ghostwriter remembering her traumatic past as she meets the ghost of her brother, who died trying to protect her as the family was making an escape from Vietnam on a small boat and " I'd Love You to Want Me", a touchingly beautiful and sad story about loss of memory and the rediscovery of love.
But yet this was also about relationships and familial love. I don't mean to be facetious, but one of the main reasons I don't connect very well with short stories is that they are just too short.
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Not long enough to know the characters, sometimes not long enough to get the story, what the author is trying to say. This was not the case here. I highly recommended this well written collection of stories that I found to be moving and impactful and full of the human experience. View all 38 comments. Dec 23, Debbie rated it really liked it Shelves: mostly-not-set-in-u-s , cultural , netgalley , favorite-short-stories , runners-up. Poster-child short stories! Believe them. Why bore you with the same old story? Let me Poster-child short stories! His characters are not heroes or victims, but ordinary people who are just trying to get by and who face relationship problems that are familiar to us all: situations that make us sad or confused or jealous, and situations that can change the way we think, that humble us or steal our innocence.
One of my favorites is a story about a remarried man who gave his second set of kids the same names as the first. Where did Nguyen come up with that??!! The twin-named daughters one lives in the United States and one lives in Vietnam meet for the first time, and there is posturing and jealousy. The man continues to call his wife by another name, and the wife wonders if her husband has had a secret affair in his past. Super well done. What is especially cool is that each story has the richness and depth of a novel. I learned a little about the Vietnam War, and I liked being enlightened.
None of the stories ended in huge drama. The endings were super realistic but a little frustrating at times, because sometimes they seemed to fizzle out and I wanted more closure. I do have to admit that there really is some closure, just quiet closure, not fireworks, and that the endings are true to the story. Oh, and did I ever have another ebook adventure! Transplant man has a wife who is annoyed by him. At the end of the story, in the middle of the page, the wife folds her arms over her chest.
Was it the husband or the wife who was saying or thinking that? And why on earth would this dramatic statement be made? If it was the wife, the loud comment was totally out of character. Or was the bizarre ending super clever and I was missing something big? I reread the story, hoping to make sense of it.
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I was disappointed in Nguyen for being so cryptic and for not having a tidy story. I went to write down comments about the story, noting, of course, how the ending was disappointing and made no sense. Then I went to the Table of Contents in my Kindle and began to write down the next story title.