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Refuge charts the deeply moving lifetime relationship between a Iranian and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration. Beautifully written, full of insight, charm, and humour, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and ultimately asks: Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another person?

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Refuge charts the deeply moving lifetime relationship between a Iranian and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration. Beautifully written, full of insight, charm, and humour, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and ultimately asks: Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another person?
Autorenporträt
Dina Nayeri is the author of the acclaimed viral essay "The Ungrateful Refugee," published in The Guardian in 2017, and the novel A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, which was translated into fourteen languages. A graduate of Princeton, Harvard, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the O. Henry Prize, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, and several other artist residencies.
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"[Nayeri's] exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent." -The New Yorker

"Rich and colorful... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere." -New York Times

"Crystalline, vivid, moving, and without pretensions, Nayeri's writing is fluid and spare...Refuge is a timely novel, about a theme that touches and moves so many, no matter where you are from." -Los Angeles Review of Books

"[An] urgent, resonating contemporary story, highlighting today's scattered, displaced, lost, all-forced-to-be refugees in search of the titular refuge... Nayeri carefully illuminates the plight of the ever-searching, never-belonging global wanderer." -The Christian Science Monitor

"As the daughter of an immigrant father, the cultural divides that can exist within families is always on my mind. I love stories that explore questions of home, a central theme of Refuge. How do we relate to the homes of our parents, especialltimely read and a compelling one." -Malcolm Forbes for The National

"Refuge should be required summer reading in 2017... a beautiful and poignant portrait of the many different experiences of the displaced. A timely and necessary work... a vital read for anyone trying to understand what it means to lose and look for home." -Bustle

"Nayeri, who was an Iranian refugee herself, has written a novel that explores the current worldwide refugee crisis through the lens of a father-daughter relationship." -Brightly

"Niloo's story, and her complex relationship with her father, expose a narrative of immigration that is necessary and nuanced." -Read It Forward

"A poignant reflection on the plight of refugees... Nayeri uses gentle humor and evocative prose to illuminate the power of familial bonds and to bestow individuality on those anonymous people caught between love of country and need for refuge. A beautiful addition to the burgeoning literature of exile." -Library Journal (starred review)

"Richly imagined and frequently moving... [manages] various threads-the personal, the political, the cultural, the generational-deftly, and the result is poignant, wise, and often funny...a vital, timely novel about what it means to seek refuge." -Kirkus

"Set against landscapes of political unrest, Nayeri's novel of a daughter and father seeking to reconcile their long-distance perceptions of family offers a captivating, multilayered exploration of lives caught between worlds." -Booklist

"A heart-splicing portrayal of the current refugee crisis...These are people who, seeking asylum, arrive in countries that aren't their own but must be made inhabitable, if not home." -The Riveter

"A nuanced and remarkably textured narrative about a world few of us experience." -BookPage

"Nayeri's prose sings while moving nimbly with equal parts seriousness and humor." -Publishers Weekly

"Beautifully elegiac, Refuge brings into focus the entire experience of emigrat
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