Disturbed in Their Nests Impressions

I haven't finished Disturbed in Their Nests yet, but I'm really enjoying this book! Alepho's look at the world is fascinating, as well as how this book was written. From what I know, Disturbed in their Nests is a sequel of sorts to They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky, another book written in part by Alepho Deng, covering his adaptation to San Diego. This is something I haven't seen before: in books that covered relocation such as Never Fall Down and First they Killed my Father, albeit in different conditions, talk little about life in America and its contrast to Cambodia. Disturbed in their Nests discusses thoroughly the perspective of a refugee or a foreigner, more broadly, and their adaptation to a new life in San Diego. This is something I felt was missing from other global-oriented books to read, not just the details of a struggle for survival, but the struggle for adaptation.
Another interesting narrative choice taken by Alepho and Judy Bernstein was the choice to tell parts of the story from different points of view: I was particularly interested in how Judy's responses to Alepho and Benson were able to give her perspective on what she takes as normal. This was revealing for me as well. Having lived in America for 17 short years, I haven't been able to talk to many others that have lived in other countries for extended periods of time and thus don't really have a conception of what makes American culture bizarre to others. I also found their journey through the education system and struggle to find a job enlightening, as someone born in the States well-off enough to not have to worry about discovering jobs, much less with little familiarity with the US as a whole, I had little knowledge of what Alepho and Benson were to experience.
I see this book as certainly reflective of the refugee experience, but I also think it has value in terms of what it reveals about us as Americans and the failures of our system to provide for all adequately.