The ungrateful refugee, what immigrants never tell you, Dina Nayeri
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The ungrateful refugee, what immigrants never tell you, Dina Nayeri
Language
eng
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autobiography
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The ungrateful refugee
Oclc number
1083686978
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Dina Nayeri
Sub title
what immigrants never tell you
Summary
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel<U+2013>turned<U+2013>refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. 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. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. 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
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adult
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