Dina Nayeri Books in Order

A childhood accident left Sara with scarred palms and a diminished sense of touch. As she navigates intimacy and connection, the physical distance imposed by her injury shapes how she understands herself and other people.

Niloo leaves Iran and builds a life abroad while her father Bahman remains behind. Four visits over twenty years reveal their changing relationship, as displacement, political upheaval and conflicting ideas of home keep pulling them apart.

Ten young refugees from Iran and Afghanistan wait in a camp in Greece for somewhere to call home. Through their everyday struggles and hopes, Nayeri explores how displaced children preserve dignity, purpose and childhood amid uncertainty.

Drawing on reporting and personal experience, Nayeri examines why some people are believed while others are dismissed. From asylum interviews to hospitals and family crises, she explores the unspoken codes that determine whose truth counts.

Growing up in rural Iran, Saba imagines an American life for her missing mother and twin sister. As she confronts the restrictions surrounding her own future, those imagined possibilities become inseparable from grief and longing.