Dina Nayeri

All her life Saba has been taught that 'fate is in the blood,' which must mean that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As Saba struggles with the limited possibilities available to her as a woman in Iran, she imagines a simultaneous, parallel life - a Western version, for her twin sister in America, which Saba believes gives her a freedom and control that she can only dream of.

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.