Vinh Nguyen is the recipient of the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for 2024 for his monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience (University of California Press, 2023). "Resentment" is an excerpt that the Journal of Transnational American Studies is honored to include here. Awarded for excellent publications that present original research in transnational American studies, the prize honors Shelly Fisher Fishkin’s outstanding dedication to the field by promoting exceptional scholarship that seeks multiple perspectives that enable comprehensive and complex approaches to American Studies, and which produce culturally, socially, and politically significant insights and interpretations relevant to Americanists around the world.