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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
A Personal Story. Nguyen writes that there is only one truly autobiographical short story in the book—“War Years”—though he admits that the entire collection is “emotionally autobiographical.”
Lengthy Development. Nguyen wrote this collection over the course of 17 years, with many of the stories being published individually in literary magazines prior to the book’s publication.