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Reviewed on November 1, 2019 | Audio
In her first nonfiction book, novelist Nayeri (A Faded Sense) uses her storytelling skills to chronicle the struggles refugees face after they escape death and violence in their native lands and seek asylum in Europe or the United States. Nayeri tells the stories of asylum seekers and supporters she interviewed during in 2016, when she began a journey to better understand her past. At age eight, Nayeri fled Iran with her mother and brother. Her mother, Muslim by birth, had converted to Christianity a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More