Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as an O. Henry Prize. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points, Chicago Review, the Threepenny Review, and the Greensboro Review.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Fiction & Literature
One of Buzzfeed’s “21 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This
Fall”
“Shocking, engaging, and moving, this novel embraces humanity in
all its messy, thrilling complexity. A strong debut from an author
capable of immersing the reader in a foreign world.” —Kirkus
Reviews
“After Disasters is a book of immense empathy, and in many ways, a
hopeful one.” —GQ, Best Book of September
“[A] stunning debut…A celebration of the messiness of humanity and
the beauty found within it.” —Nylon, 13 Books to Read This
September
“Haunting and heartbreaking, After Disasters is not an easy read by
any means. But it gets to the heart of what happens when we are
faced with a disaster we can’t control, and brilliantly probes into
the parts of ourselves that arise in the aftermath.” —Refinery29,
Best Book of September
“After Disasters is a story of grit and pain, not unlike the
earthquake it follows. Read it at your own peril, but once you do,
the pictures it paints in your mind will linger for a long time.”
—New York Journal of Books
“Dinh is skilled at rendering the messiness of human motivation,
and he adeptly harmonizes various preoccupations—masculinity,
ecological abrasion, and the complexities of international aid
work.” —The New Yorker
“Make shelf space for Dinh’s stupendous debut, which is bound to
appear on this year’s lists of award nominations and best-of
compilations.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Meticulously researched and vividly told, After Disasters is an
ambitious page-turner that weaves together environmental
devastation, queer masculinities, and postcolonial landscapes.” —LA
Review of Books
“[After Disasters] is outright beautiful, one of those rare
combinations where you can’t stop reading it, so engaged are you in
the characters’ lives, but equally, you force yourself to stop and
sift through a sentence’s construction or reflect on how the author
has so perfectly captured the ineffable.” —Lambda Literary
Review
“A+: After Disasters, by Viet Dinh, a heartrending account of
global disaster relief (and love). This novel made me think about
headlines in a new way—what really happens in the weeks and months
after the earthquake, the flood, the fire. Incredible book.”
—Lincoln Star Journal
“Viet Dinh takes on a multitude of voices in exploring the
aftermath of disaster and the ways we fight to do more than
survive. A promising debut from a writer whose stories I’ve been
following for years. This is one to watch.” —Matthew Salesses, The
Hundred-Year Flood
“After Disasters is a triumph of pulsating humanity and lyrical
ambition. Viet Dinh has written a novel of tremendous range,
vibrant scope, and astonishing detail—one that dares to consider
the emotional dimensions of natural cataclysms, the conflicts faced
by international aid relief workers, and the daily challenges of
saving our own brief lives. After Disasters marks the debut of Viet
Dinh’s brilliant career.” —Amber Dermont, New York Times
bestselling author of The Starboard Sea
“After Disasters is a wonderful read—the earthquake at the center
of these stories permits the characters within them to reveal their
essential selves, whether in weakness or heroism. The book has the
breadth and sweep of a novel, leading the reader across time and
geography, pursuing the trajectories of its protagonists with
insight and empathy. Viet Dinh is a splendid writer.” —Antonya
Nelson, author of Bound and Funny Once: Stories
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