cbr17bingo: migrant I knew little about Iran and nothing about refugees prior to reading this memoir, which is an important, and at times distressing, book. Dina Nayeri primarily writes about her family’s flight from Iran, with the book broken into five sections that correspond to elements of this flight: Escape, Camp, Asylum, Assimilation, and Cultural Repatriation. Told from a non-linear perspective and interspersed with stories of other refugees’ lives, Nayeri depicts the arduous, often trauma-filled journey that refugees go on and the long-lasting impact of […]