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A review by booknrrd
Refuge by Dina Nayeri
3.0
I listened to this on audio, and I just didn't connect with it. I liked it. I could almost see the failure to connect as being intentional, just like the narrator keeps herself apart, trapped by her sense of herself as a refugee.
The novel is told in two voices, that of Niloo, who left Iran with her mother and brother as a girl and settled first in Oklahoma then later in Amsterdam, and Bahman, the father and opium addict that she left behind.
The novel is told in two voices, that of Niloo, who left Iran with her mother and brother as a girl and settled first in Oklahoma then later in Amsterdam, and Bahman, the father and opium addict that she left behind.