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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

Instantly gripping…  a master storyteller of the refugee experience.”—Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian

“Few books are as erudite, comprehensive, and intensely personal all at once.” — Library Journal

“An important, courageous, brilliant book” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

Who Gets Believed by Dina Nayeri

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A TIME Best Book of March
Electric Literature’s Books by Women of Color to Read This Year
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023—Literary Hub, The Week, Goodreads et al

Ardent, harrowing. . . An elegant telling of truth to power.”—Stuart Jeffries, The Observer

“Memoir, philosophy, and social history collide in this compelling examination. . . . [A] powerful, clarifying book.” —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire

“An unflinching, compelling look at how ‘calcified hearts believe’—and disbelieve.”Kirkus

“Wide-ranging and provocative.”Publishers Weekly

Essential reading”—John Burnside, author of A Lie about My Father

“A masterclass in storytelling.”—Steve Crawshaw, policy director at Freedom from Torture

“A compelling, generous, and distinctive inquiry into the nature of belief… shows the workings of Nayeri’s singular and noble mind.” —Chitra Ramaswamy, author of Homelands: The History of a Friendship

“That rarest of cre­ations, an original work about a condition in which we are all implicated.”—Jeff Sharlet, bestselling author of The Family and This Brilliant Darkness