A review by dwheeler88
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.0

It seems rude to give a low rating to a book containing first hand stories from refugees. I guess what I didn’t like was that all/most the stories were provided by people who were placed in a new country at a very young age, all/most from affluent families, and all writers in their own right. This seemed more of a book to show that the term refugee includes these successful people too. Also, the stories were disjointed and some of them actually too poetic for me to understand what the author was trying to say.

What I did like was that the writers came from all over the globe, not just a book from a US perspective. Some authors ended up in Canada, England, or other countries accepting refugees.

Overall it was an interesting read, but if I were to only read one book on the refugee situation this year, it wouldn’t be this one.