The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of Vietnam - Hardcover

Nguyen, Vinh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1640096736 ISBN 13: 9781640096738

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2025

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An unconventional memoir of conjuring the uncertain past and a long-lost homeland, and a vital document of one family's journey through world history

With 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.

Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for the story of his father. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above sunken truths. To come to terms with the past, Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for decades in broken hearts and guarded silences.

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse takes readers on a poignant tour of disappeared refugee camps, abandoned family homes, and the lives that could have been. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this powerful memoir is timelier and more important than ever, illuminating the stories, real and imagined, that become buried in the rubble of war.

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VINH NGUYEN is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in Brick, LitHub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Criterion Collection, and MUBI Notebook. He is a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is editor and author of three academic books: Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, and Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience and his writing has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and has received the John C. Polanyi Prize for Literature. In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Non-fiction for emerging LGBTQ writers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1640096736
• ISBN 13: 9781640096738
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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