About the Boo k:
Lunch and Learn returns with special guest Vinh Nguyen in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of Hum an Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System discussin g his new book\, "The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse."
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About the Boo
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An unconventional memoir of conjuring the uncertain past and a long-lost homeland\, and a vital document of one family&rsquo\;s journey t hrough world history.
\nWith the fall of Saigon on April 30\, 1975\, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended\, but the refugee crisis was only beginning . Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen\, along with his mother and siblings\, and his father\, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished.
\nDecades later\, Nguyen goes looki ng for the story of his father. What he discovers is a sea of questions dr ifting above sunken truths. To come to terms with the past\, Nguyen must p iece together the debris of history with family stories that have been sca ttered across generations and continents\, kept for decades in broken hear ts and guarded silences.
\n"The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse" takes readers on a poignant tour of disappeared refugee camps\, abandoned famil y homes\, and the lives that could have been. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches\, this powerful memoir is timelie r and more important than ever\, illuminating the stories\, real and imagi ned\, that become buried in the rubble of war. ~From the publisher \;< /p>\n
About the Author: \;
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Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in \;Brick\, Literary Hub\, The Malahat Review\, PRISM international\ , Grain\, Queen&rsquo\;s Quarterly\, Current\, and \;MUBI&rsquo\;s Not ebook. He is a nonfiction editor at \;The New Quarterly\, where he cur ates an ongoing series on refugee\, migrant\, and diasporic writing. He is the co-editor of the academic books \;Refugee States: Critical Refuge e Studies in Canada \;and \;The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narr atives\, and the author of "Lived Refuge: Gratitude\, Resentment\, Resilie nce." His writing has been short-listed for a National Magazine Award and has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature. In 2022\, he wa s a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction for emerging LGBTQ writers. He li ves in Toronto\, Canada.
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