The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen
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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.
Genres: Short StoriesFictionHistorical FictionContemporaryAsiaBook ClubLiterary FictionAdultHistoricalAudiobook
209 Pages

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