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The Ungrateful Refugee

The Ungrateful Refugee

Dina Nayeri · 2019 · 454 pages

RefugeesIran, social conditionsChildren, social conditionsNew York Times reviewed

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In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers

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