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Emotional Baggage: Dina Nayeri

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Henrietta Bowden-Jones talks to novelist Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee, about her experience of escaping Iran and seeking asylum.

Psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones talks to novelist Dina Nayeri about her experience of escaping Iran and seeking asylum. The author of The Ungrateful Refugee reveals why she left her homeland without her father, her "co-conspirator in life", and why that sense of loss that has always stayed with her.

(Photo: Iranian American novelist Dina Nayeri during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019, Scotland. Credit: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

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