Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isnt Enough Nayeri Dina
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isnt Enough Nayeri Dina Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.--Viet Thanh NguyenFrom the author of The Ungrateful…
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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isnt Enough Nayeri Dina
Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.--Viet Thanh NguyenFrom the author of The Ungrateful Refugee--finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize--Who Gets Believed? From persuading a doctor that she'd prefer a C-section to learning to "bullshit is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews, emergency rooms, consulting jobs, and family lifeWhy are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars?Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book, which grows into a reckoning with our culture's views on believability.