The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Notes and Questions for pages 1-65

This is the May 2023 book for the Hard Conversations Book Club. Notes on pages 1-65 are below for you to consider while reading. To join the HCBC, use that link above for information and registration.

Introduction

In the introduction, Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks of the experience of being classified as an “other.” He writes: “The other exists in contradicti…