The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

An author with a Pulitzer Prize award, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s writing imbues a sense of delicacy to the experiences of the Vietnamese immigrant and refugee communities. In capturing their diverse stories, he takes on the responsibility of letting their lived realities manoeuvre the direction of the narrative.

I was somewhat intimidated to pick up this short story collection simply because of the depth of the topics covered. I feared that it might be too emotionally exhaustive to read. But that...