miaafenton 's review for:

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.0

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A series of simple character studies, gorgeously written. Many of the characters will stay with me for some time, I imagine. I love books where the point is not a story, or even a character arc, but just an analysis of humanity. A moving study of how war & diaspora affect a population in simultaneously miniscule and vast ways.