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