Sunday, January 26, 2020

Thought for the Day


. . . We are all immigrants from the past, and home lives 
inside the memory, where we lock it up
and pretend it is unchanged.
~ Dina Nayeri
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Quoted from Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Canongate Books/Catapult, 2019), page 346. The book was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize.

Dina Nayeri, Award-Winning Novelist, Essayist, and Nonfiction Writer; Fellow, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, 2019-2020

2 comments:

Louise Gallagher said...

Powerful. Another book to add to the pile beside my bed!

Idn Theme said...

great article ,,,