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I like learning about other people's experiences. I admire each refugee who shared their story for their strength and determination, and they have all given me something to think about when encountering refugees. I want to recognize them and their experiences and not make feel like they are second class citizens. They have something to contribute to the world just as much as I do.
This is a phenomenal book that I loved from start to finish and I can honestly say that I think this a vital piece of work that everyone should read. I was so impressed and moved by each and every essay that I immediately felt the urge to share it with as many people as possible. From Syria to Ethiopia to Vietnam, we hear a variety of voices of refugees who are relating their experiences of leaving their home country to find refuge elsewhere and the subsequent trauma they are still dealing and c...
It's doubtful that few people other than refugees can truly know the feeling of permanently forsaking their home country, but some idea can be gleaned from the pages of this book. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives consists of essays of various writers who fled their homelands in search of a new existence. The editing is by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanah Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam before the fall of South Vietnam in 1971. Each story is a unique perspective. You wou...
I feel that in order to better empathize with the plight of others, we must bear witness to their suffering and not turn a blind eye. This novel offers us short stories from refugees hailing from various parts of the globe - Vietnam, then Yugoslavia, Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Mexico, Central America, and parts of Africa.I am amazed that there have been so many countries and parts of the world plagued with war, death, relocation, poverty, loss... all on their home soil. Why does the global commu...
books like this one remind me why we read.doesn't seem right to rate or review this one. just read it.------------taking lily's idea and reading only books by asian authors this month!book 1: the incendiariesbook 2: last night at the telegraph clubbook 3: dear girlsbook 4: sigh, gonebook 5: frankly in lovebook 6: emergency contactbook 7: your house will paybook 8: convenience store womanbook 9: on earth we're briefly gorgeousbook 10: we are not freebook 11: searching for sylvie leebook 12: the d...
This is not a book for feeling comfortable about one's beliefs and experiences, but it is an important book for empathy-building. I think most Americans would have something to think about as they read it, since many of our ancestors will have experienced similar feelings of outsider-ness when they arrived on US shores. Although most would have been economic migrants rather than asylum seekers or refugees of war, there's a lot to be learned about the human condition as we read about the movement...
This book was surprisingly enjoyable and thoughtful. It is a collection of short writings by refugee writers about their lives as refugees. This goes beyond considerations of immigration and emigration to one’s identity as a refugee and the experience of seeking refuge. The editor Nguyen has focused on refugee writers for whom coming to grips with their identities as refugees was central to their coming of age as writers and honing both their skills and their messages. No single particular passa...
It’s hard to find words for this book. It’s beautiful but heartbreaking, inspiring but enraging. This book reminded me that I most love reading when reading helps me learn because it’s one of those books that smacks me in the face with how ignorant I am and how little I know about lives different from my own. The stories here are varied but all compelling, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
