Reading order#
| # |
Title |
Published |
Author |
Buy on Amazon |
| 1 |
Black-Eyed Women |
2017 |
Viet Thanh Nguyen |
Buy |
Black-Eyed Women originally appeared in The Refugees collection and is among the most discussed individual stories in Nguyen’s short fiction. It uses the conventions of ghost fiction to explore the specific grief of families separated or destroyed by the refugee experience.
It’s a good introduction to Nguyen’s short fiction if you’re not yet ready for the full collection, though readers who enjoy it will almost certainly want to read the rest of The Refugees.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books are in the Viet Thanh Nguyen Short Stories/Novellas series?
There are one books in the Viet Thanh Nguyen Short Stories/Novellas series, published in 2017.
What is the first book in the Viet Thanh Nguyen Short Stories/Novellas series?
The first book in the Viet Thanh Nguyen Short Stories/Novellas series is Black-Eyed Women, published in 2017.
What is Black-Eyed Women about?
It’s a short story following a Vietnamese-American woman who writes ghost stories for a living and whose dead brother appears to her one night, drawing her back into the trauma of their family’s flight from Vietnam.