The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer presents a new collection of stories, written over a 20-year period, which explores questions of home, family, immigration, the American experience and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. Reprint. A New York Times Editors' Choice From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in American letters, praised as beautiful and heartrending (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker), terrific (Chicago Tribune), and an important and incisive book (Washington Post)