The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona with Tome Gnome and Tucson Spotlight to host the Solutions-Focused Community Book Club!
When: June 12, 2025 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: CFSA Campus
Book: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
This book club aims to bring together interested community members from all walks of life to bond over a shared desire to make our community better for all – and be inspired by a shared reading experience!
Light refreshments will be provided.
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Fragrance can be an access barrier! To help make the Solutions-Focused Community Book Club accessible to participants for whom chemicals or fragrances are an access barrier, we request that you come fragrance-free. Please refrain from wearing any scented products or washing with them. This includes clothing that has been laundered with fragranced detergent or fabric-softening products.
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.
The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.