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MacArthur genius grants

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Books
A refugee writer wins a ‘genius grant’ for his depictions of the displaced
A Salvadoran father carries his son tries as he tries to board a train with another immigrant and head to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near Mexico City.
Arts
MacArthur grant winner studies the things left behind at the US-Mexico border