The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter,
seen through the prism of global immigration and the 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?
Refuge - Dina Nayeri
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