Dina Nayeri's second novel, Refuge: A Novel, will be released by Riverhead Books in July 2017. She is the winner of an O. Henry Prize and an NEA literature grant, a Granta New Voices pick, and a 2017 finalist for the Rome Prize. Her writing has appeared or is scheduled to appear in The Guardian, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Granta, Vice, Marie Claire, and elsewhere, and has been translated into fourteen languages.
I started having nightmares around the time we arrived in the first refugee hostel—missing limbs and phantom stranglers and dying parents were simply the price of sleep.