Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Viet Thanh Nguyen humanizes in ‘The Refugees’

Cover of The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Daily Arts Writer Samantha Lu reviews ‘The Refugees’. Originally published in Michigan Daily.  It takes a certain type of genius to write endings the way Viet Thanh Nguyen does: with candor, poetic grace and a haunting emotional spark that sticks. In his newest collection of short stories, “The Refugees,” Nguyen’s endings don’t merely slap on some […]