The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
192The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
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ISBN-13: | 9781419729485 |
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Publisher: | Abrams Press |
Publication date: | 04/10/2018 |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Thi Bui was born in Việt Nam three months before the end of the American War, and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017), has been selected as UCLA’s Common Book for 2017, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, an Eisner Award finalist in Reality Based Comics, and made several Best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’s top five picks. Bui is also the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of A Different Pond, a picture book by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, Reveal News, PEN America, and BOOM California. She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about how Asian Americans are impacted by incarceration and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House. Bui taught high school in New York City and was a founding teacher of Oakland International High School, the first public high school in California for recent immigrants and English learners. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member of the MFA in Comics program at the California College of the Arts. Thi Bui lives in the Bay Area.
Table of Contents
Introduction Viet Thanh Nguyen 11
The Road Chris Abani 23
Last, First, Middle Joseph Azam 31
Common Story David Bezmozgis 43
Flesh and Sand Fatima Bhutto 51
Perspective and What Gets Lost Thi Bui 61
How Succulent Food Defeated Trump's Wall Before It Has Been Built Ariel Doreman 67
Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa Lev Golinkin 75
The Parent Who Stays Reyna Grande 81
To Walk in Their Shoes Meron Hadero 91
God's Fate Aleksandar Hemon 99
Second Country Joseph Kertes 113
13 Ways of Being an Immigrant Porochista Khakpour 121
Refugees and Exiles Marina Lewvcka 129
This Is What the Journey Does Maaza Mengiste 137
The Ungrateful Refugee Dina Nayeri 145
Am I a Refugee? Raja Shehadeh 159
A Refugee Again Vu Tran 165
New Lands, New Selves Novuyo Rosa Tshuma 173
Refugee Children: The Yang Warriors Kao Kalia Yang 189
List of Contributors 197
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