A moving immigrant story that looks at the larger contemporary refugee experience.
Dina Nayeri is the author of A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, which was translated into fourteen foreign 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.
"[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,
especially if they aren't ours? How do we build homes when we
haven't left the old ones freely?" -Elle "Dina Nayeri focuses on
the relationship between an Iranian father and daughter as they
explore the experience of exile from different sides of the world
and there is so much beauty and pain expressed in her prose... I'll
be recommending it to everyone I know. It's stunning."
-Buzzfeed
"The immigrant experience is at the heart of Dina Nayeri's powerful
novel of a family split by circumstances." -Minneapolis
Star-Tribune "A lush, brimming novel of exile." -Newsday "Topical
and urgent." -W Magazine "A nuanced look at what it means to seek
refuge; novels don't get more timely than this." -The Millions
"Dina Nayeri's Refuge is a searing and moving meditation on the
migrant experience...Against the ebb and flow of their separations
and reconciliations, Nayeri charts the desperate journeys and the
hopes and fates of other refugees of different nationalities
seeking sanctuary in Europe. A timely 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 emigration... Nayeri is brilliant on parental
imperfections and the negotiations children make with their
families, and she offers a remarkably textured portrayal of drug
addiction and of everyday Iran that defies news-media stereotypes."
--Matthew Thomas, New York Times-bestselling author of We Are Not
Ourselves "Dina Nayeri's prose has something all too rare in books
these days: a wild, beating heart. Read this book to feel your own
heart expand." --Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life "For
anyone who has wondered about the distance between contemporary
American and Iranian lives and thought, this book is essential
reading. If any book can close that distance, this one can."
--Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love "Deeply felt . . . I
was completely taken up by this book--invigorated by the
intelligence, and inspired by the sensual descriptions of Iranian
food and Amsterdam life. I'll keep this one in my bookshelf of
favorites." --Alice Elliott Dark, author of Naked to the Waist,
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