The award-winning author of The Ungrateful Refugee questions who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?

“Ambitious and poignant... it will cement Nayeri’s position as one of the great storytellers of the refugee experience” - Guardian. The wide-ranging, groundbreaking new release from Dina Nayeri combines deep reporting with her personal experience to examine what constitutes belief in our society. Determined to explore ideas of persuasion and representation, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes to emergency medical departments, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews, and her own family to ponder - where lies the difference between being believed and being rejected?

What does this mean for our culture? As personal as it is, her reflections on language, history, ethics, and understanding are equally profound. Who Gets Believed? explores the unspoken social codes that determine how we connect with one another.

“An important, brave, astonishing book” - Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of Underland.

“Dina Nayeri asks an incredibly important question, and the answers she finds are critical for all of us” - Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of Butler to the World.

“This book moved me deeply. Who Gets Believed? is essential reading, a remarkable work of love and hope that is destined to become an integral part of the ongoing struggle for justice” - John Burnside, winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for Literature.

Pages: 304, Dimensions: 13x13cm.