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Viet Thanh Nguyen

“With the exception of those born in refugee camps, every refugee used to have a life. It doesn’t matter whether you were a physician in Bosnia or a goat herder in the Congo: what matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refugee means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life.”

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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