The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Refugees is a compilation of evocative vignettes featuring Vietnamese refugees or people with ties to Vietnam. Some of the stories are heartbreaking. The one that comes to mind is a librarian who has to give up the job she loves to care for her husband with Alzheimer's--who insists on calling her by another woman's name. We meet the Americanized daughter who returns to Saigon to visit the father she doesn't even remember and his second family. We meet an American who fought in the Vietnam War who reluctantly visits the daughter who has moved to Vietnam to teach. Each and every story is a gem, showing us a different aspect of the immigrant experience and the ties that bind us to our history.

The author won the 2016 Pulitzer prize for The Sympathizer.  I shall have to track down a copy at the library.