The Ungrateful Refugee

Name: The Ungrateful Refugee
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Dina Nayeri
ISBN: 9781646220175

Dina Nayeri • 2019

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying

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Our Take

Nayeri escaped Iran as a child and spent her life performing gratitude for the countries that took her in. This book refuses that performance. Refugees do not owe their hosts thankfulness for basic humanity. The anger is precise and the argument is unanswerable.

Appears In

► Refugee Stories — Displacement, Survival, and the Myth of Home ► Deportation and Borders — The Violence of the Line ► Exile and Displacement — The Country You Carry Inside You

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