Who Gets Believed?

Aso a refugee working with Freedom from Torture Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging groundbreaking new book which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms corporate boardrooms asylum interviews and into her own family to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture?

As personal as it is profound in its reflections on language history morality and compassion Who Gets Believed? investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.