Viet Thanh Nguyen's Stories Of 'Refugees'

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 29, 2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to discuss The Refugees; his new collection of eight stories exploring immigration. Set in the United States and Vietnam, Nguyen gives voice to an array of people including a young Vietnamese refugee who lives with two gay men in San Francisco, and a Vietnamese writer who is haunted by the ghosts of civilians and soldiers killed in the war.

Note: This segment originally aired on March 16, 2017.

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