Daniel Nayeri, Author, Dina Nayeri, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (387p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3707-1
In this sibling duo's debut, an unusual urban fantasy, five 10-year-olds—overachieving Victoria, homeless writer Christian, twins Bicé and Belle, and fame-hungry poet Valentin—disappear from their homes and are adopted by the
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Dina Nayeri. Riverhead, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-705-7
A daughter and father seek strength and solace across international and emotional divides in Nayeri’s novel, rooted in the Arab Spring uprisings and the European migrant crisis. Niloofar Hamidi and her father, Bahman, have seen each other four...
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Dina Nayeri. Catapult, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64622-072-4
Journalist and novelist Nayeri (The Ungrateful Refugee) argues in this wide-ranging and provocative study that believability is often a matter of “performance,” and that “disbelief is the baseline” in British and American immigration courts. Weaving
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Dina Nayeri. Riverhead, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59448-704-0
This ambitious novel set in northern Iran in the decade after the 1979 revolution contains not a teaspoon but a ton of history, imagination, and longing. Beginning with the 1981 disappearance of 11-year-old Saba Hafezi’s twin sister, Mahtab, and...
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Dina Nayeri, photographs by Anna Bosch Miralpeix. Candlewick, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1362-1
This picture book debut by Nayeri profiles 10 children at the Katsikas camp outside Ioannna, Greece. Opening with a personification of the Waiting Place as initially compassionate (“It is very sorry. It has been waiting for you”), and then...
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Dina Nayeri. Catapult, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9482-2642-4
Novelist Nayeri (Refuge) explores the plight of refugees through the prism of her own childhood escape from Iran in this provocative account. She begins with an account of how, after being threatened for practicing Christianity in the 1980s, eight-ye
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