In this special holiday episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, fiction writer and memoirist Bich Minh Nguyen talks to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about her history as a refugee, recent news about the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, and her holiday traditions.

Readings for the Episode:

· Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, Pioneer Girl, and Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen

· “Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees,” by Charles Dunst and Krishnadev Calamur, Atlantic.com Dec. 12, 2018 ·

· A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

· Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

· "The Dead," by James Joyce

· “The Netflix Christmas Movie Cinematic Universe Is Here,” Buzzfeed, Alanna Bennett

· “It’s a Wonderful Life,” film, 1946, dir. Frank Capra

· “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” short story by Ernest Hemingway.

· “Santa Clo va a La Cuchilla,” short story by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro

· “Is Denaturalization the Next Front in the Trump Administration’s War on Immigration?” by Seth Freed Wessler, The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 19, 2018

Guests: Bich Minh Nguyen

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7: Bich Minh Nguyen on the Refugee Experience of Holiday Narratives