What a Refugee Knows

An American flag is seen through rain drops on a window as rain falls in Baltimore, Sunday, April 22, 2012.

Dina Nayeri, award-winning novelist who emigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child, now based in London, and the author of The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult, 2019), talks about her first non-fiction book about her own history, and that of other asylum-seekers.