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. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University/5(). · by Dina Nayeri ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 3, A novelist turns to nonfiction to illuminate the refugee experience, focusing mostly on her Iranian family but also reporting the sagas of many others fleeing poverty and violence. The word “ungrateful” in the . The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You is a memoir by novelist Dina Nayeri. It is her first nonfiction book and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature.
The Ungrateful Refugee's pages are structured into five sections that mirror the refugee's journey: escape, camp, asylum, assimilation, and cultural repatriation. The section on asylum was especially heartbreaking and anger-inducing for me as Nayeri exposed asylum officers and the systems they work within. by Dina Nayeri ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 3, A novelist turns to nonfiction to illuminate the refugee experience, focusing mostly on her Iranian family but also reporting the sagas of many others fleeing poverty and violence. The word "ungrateful" in the title is intended sarcastically, even bitterly. Praise for The Ungrateful Refugee Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction An American Booksellers Association Indie Next Selection "Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience."Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of.
Nayeri is the author of two novels― Refuge and A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea ―and her work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and many other publications. The Ungrateful Refugee is her first book of nonfiction. Dina Nayeri. Photograph: Anna Leader/Guardian Digital Design. Dina Nayeri was just a child when she fled Iran as an asylum seeker. But as she settled into life in the US and then Europe, she. The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You is a memoir by novelist Dina Nayeri. It is her first nonfiction book and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature.
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