The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You

An Iranian refugee “confronts the issues that are key to the refugee experience,” drawing on her own—and others’—powerful stories (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).

“A work of astonishing, insistent importance” that will make you rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis” (Observer).

Aged 8, 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...