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Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Refugees

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, these stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.

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Week of January 1, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 1st include THE LOST ORDER, Steve Berry's 12th Cotton Malone novel, a perilous adventure that illuminates our country’s dark past and the risks of a potentially darker future; THE GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney, an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death and deception; THE PERFECT STRANGER, Megan Miranda's gripping story of a journalist who sets out to find her missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all; and Jessica Shattuck's THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined, set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society.

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