Wholesale The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful and timely dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines. Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis: 68.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to South Sudan and Syria, a figure worse than the flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II and beyond anything the world has seen in this generation. Yet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear have shut the door. Even for readers seeking to help, the sheer scale of the problem renders the experience of refugees hard to comprehend.