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The Ungrateful Refugee

What Immigrants Never Tell You

by Dina Nayeri

Publication: First published 2019
ISBNs: 9781646220212, 9781948226424, 9781432873165

Kirkus Nonfiction 2019 · Finalist

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Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
2019

Finalist

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