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Refuge
Refuge | Dina Nayeri
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Finally, a moving immigrant story that looks at the larger contemporary refugee experience. An 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? Refuge 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?
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acw
Refuge: A Novel | Dina Nayeri
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Sad, but powerful. Was a recommendation from my World Lit professor - meant to explore East/West connections, but ended up paralleling my life in many unexpected ways. Definitely needed some time to collect my thoughts after this one, but isn‘t that the best?

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tstan
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Where to start? A beautifully written story of father and daughter, Iran, and the search for home. One of the best books I‘ve read this year.

BarbaraBB I think I must read this. Thanks for bringing it up! 6y
tstan @BarbaraBB I think this is one you‘d like. Can‘t wait to see what you think! 6y
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AceOnRoam
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I nearly gave up on this book, but kept reading to find a very realistic (to me) story of a family as seen through the eyes of the daughter and the father. Probably a bit too detailed and this could have made for a nice little novella but the details bring the culture and cross cultures to life.

Another gorgeous cover 😍
#coverlove
#ReadingOnRoam

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shawnmooney
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shawnmooney
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#QuoteOfTheDay

This novel is sooooo great so far!

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RidgewayGirl
Refuge: A Novel | Dina Nayeri
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Home with a cold today. I‘m hoping to pep up enough to read from my current stack of books. Refuge is on my ipad and not pictured.

charl08 I thought Smile was quite a different book from usual Doyle. Look forward to hearing yr vp. 7y
batsy Loved So Much Blue! 7y
BarbaraBB There‘s a readalong now for The Luminaries if you are interested. I am a few hundred pages in now and loving it! 7y
BarbaraBB And I want to read Smile!! 7y
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merelybookish
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Pachinko and Idaho have already gotten some ❤️. Here's another I thought was pretty pretty. #favoritebookcover2017 @allthebooksof2017

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ErikasMindfulShelf
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I just wanted it to be over. I think it's because I have too many other books I want to read. 3.5 🌟

DivineDiana I know that feeling! 7y
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merelybookish
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"How is the atmosphere of your heart?"
I wasn't sure about this when I started. But now I'm ALL IN. It's really good!
A nuanced and very human look at what it means to be a refugee.

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MrBook
Refuge | Dina Nayeri
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#TBRtemptation post 5! Just released. Love this cover! 4.23 GR rating. A deeply moving narrative about a daughter & father spanning decades. An Iranian girl escapes to America from Iran. Over 20 years, she becomes an overachieving Westerner. Her father's stayed behind, & they only visit 4 times over those 20 years. As their lives diverge, they realize more than ever how much they need each other. #PhillyMeetUp edition! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

valeriegeary I love this cover! 7y
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merelybookish
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I ended up bailing on The Last Neanderthal. (I have no idea what a Neanderthal's thinking would be like, but the writing of Girl didn't work for me.)
So onwards to this...

Lacythebookworm This sounds so good! 7y
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rjsthumbelina
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Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The prose was beautiful, and several quotes throughout made me stop and think, which is rare sometimes and something I think should be applauded. The story is about immigrants fleeing Iran, something the author has experienced. I didn't know very much about the turmoil that happened in Iran, so it was eye-opening for me. But, I thought the characters were prone to being a little too stereotypical at times.

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rjsthumbelina
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Some of the lines in this book, so good. Really making me stop and think about things for a second.

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rjsthumbelina
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Interesting meditation on how the meaning of "home" is different for immigrants

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rjsthumbelina
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Wow. That's a powerful statement about the main character. His drug use is the one element of the book I find problematic so far. They talk about it as an Iranian stereotype quite a lot, but it makes me wonder if the author is falling back on a stereotype a little too heavily for a main character

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rjsthumbelina
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Seeing how I like this ARC. What a beautiful quote on the first page!

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Rhondareads
Refuge | Dina Nayeri
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Sounds like a wonderful book about immigration about family love across the years across the world.

LeahBergen I spy Lucia! ❤️ 7y
Rhondareads @LeahBergen lol just love her💕 7y
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