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Friday Jul 20, 2018
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Meron Hadero, "THE DISPLACED"
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Friday Jul 20, 2018
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.
The Displaced features essays from seventeen prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. A timely and poignant collection, the book is also an indictment of the international community closing its doors to refugees and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum.
Abrams will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000, to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a not-for- profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. For more information on the IRC, visit http://www.rescue.org/.
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.
The Displaced features essays from seventeen prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. A timely and poignant collection, the book is also an indictment of the international community closing its doors to refugees and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum.
Abrams will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000, to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a not-for- profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. For more information on the IRC, visit http://www.rescue.org/.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer, The Refugees) is in conversation with fellow contributor Meron Hadero (published in Best American Short Stories, Selected Shorts) and editor Jamison Stoltz.
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