A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.
Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit f. . .
Her family\'s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . --The New York Times Book Review Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the \'feared swarms\' . --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.
A writer who confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.
With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis.
She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others.
Nayeri confronts notions like the swarm, and, on the other hand, good immigrants.
A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials.
In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home.
In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University.
Eventually she was granted asylum in America. --Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp.
This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive. . .
Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart-rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own . . .
Her family\'s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating . . . --The New York Times Book Review Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the \'feared swarms\' .
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence
