My friend is a fan of  Viet Thanh Nguyen, so when this event was posted, he immediately texted me about it. I had never read anything by Nguyen before, so it was nice to take The Refugees home with me. I definitely enjoyed reading it. It was a nice change in format as well, since I don’t usually read short story collections. I’m looking forward to continuing on and reading the Sympathizer.

I’m sorry I missed out on hearing the author speak at the reading series last semester. I’ll have to attend more of them in the future in case anything like this happens again!