A Shelter of Memory in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women” "The Refugees" is an anthology book by Viet Thanh Nguyen, a diasporan of Vietnamese origin. The Refugees comprises nine short stories each dealing with the hopes and expectations of people who migrate under life-changing situations. “The Black-Eyed Women” is the first story of the collection that is taken for analysis. The story is narrated by an unnamed woman living in the United States as a second generation diasporan. The story revolves around the author whose family is Vietnamese. In America, she conceals her identity and leads her life as a ghostwriter, she listens to other stories as part of her profession. Nonetheless, she does not do so with her mother who shares the story of the past. She hardly pays heed to her. One day the narrator’s boss Victor, who is also a forced Vietnamese immigrant in America tells the author about his story. After she listens to the pathetic story of Victor and his family’...
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