It’s the last Ruff Reads of our spring season and for our final book exploring the themes in As You Like It, we’re diving into true experiences of exile and refuge.
THE DISPLACED: REFUGEE WRITERS ON REFUGEE LIVES edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Thursday June 25 at 8pm on Zoom
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives is available as an audiobook, an ebook, through your library, or for 10% off at our favourite indie Toronto bookshop Queen Books (when you mention Ruff Reads!).
DM us or contact christine@shakespeareintheruff.com for the Zoom link. (Don’t have time to read or watch, but still interested in the conversation? Join us anyway!)
About The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives:
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained.
In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.
About Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. His most recent book, To Save and to Destroy, explores the idea of being an outsider. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees; the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; the children’s book Simone along with illustrator Minnie Phan; the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed; the nonfiction book A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, longlisted for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, The Displaced, as well as a co-editor of The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora. He is a University Professor and the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.