The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse
A Memory of Vietnam
by Vinh Nguyen
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Pub Date Apr 15 2025 | Archive Date Mar 28 2025
Catapult, Counterpoint Press, and Soft Skull Press | Counterpoint
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Description
With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished.
Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for the story of his father. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above sunken truths. To come to terms with the past, Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for decades in broken hearts and guarded silences.
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse takes readers on a poignant tour of disappeared refugee camps, abandoned family homes, and the lives that could have been. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this powerful memoir is timelier and more important than ever, illuminating the stories, real and imagined, that become buried in the rubble of war.
Advance Praise
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE
“Vinh Nguyen’s writing is blazingly brilliant.”
—Souvankham Thammavongsa, Giller Prize-winning author of How To Pronounce Knife
“Vinh is an elegant and profound writer who has reflected on many histories and has written with deep attentiveness to the particular. I imagine that a book of his will be a bold, moving, and original reconsideration of questions which we, as a society, have been unable to face with the complexity and contradiction they demand. I am so excited for this work.”
—Madeleine Thien, Giller Prize-winning author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing
“Vinh Nguyen’s writing blows me away. The talent jumps out. I need this book now, yesterday. We’ve been needing this book!”
—Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual
“Vinh Nguyen is without question one of the most inspiring writers I have encountered. He is prismatic in his attention, bravely self-examining, revolutionary in his approach to ideas of refuge and “refugee stories.” He writes like a dream. I cannot think of a more important or exciting project for this time.”
—Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life: A Year Of Observation
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781640096738 |
| PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
