{"product_id":"refuge-a-novel-paperback","title":"Refuge: A Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDina Nayeri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rich and colorful... \u003ci\u003e Refuge]\u003c\/i\u003e has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom and, ultimately, rescue. Meanwhile, refugees of all nationalities are flowing into Europe under troubling conditions. Wanting to help, but also looking for a lost sense of home, our grown-up transplant finds herself quickly entranced by a world that is at once everything she has missed and nothing that she has ever known. Will her immersion in the lives of these new refugees allow her the grace to save her father? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e charts the deeply moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration. Beautifully written, full of insight, charm, and humor, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and ultimately asks: Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another person?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDina Nayeri is the author of the acclaimed viral essay \"The Ungrateful Refugee,\" published in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003ein 2017, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the novel \u003ci\u003eA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, which was translated into fourteen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41830170460295,"sku":"9780399573255","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0f2fcbe3a5a371e6b1be4136deb8c659.webp?v=1734083932","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/refuge-a-novel-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}