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The moving life-time romantic relationship between a father and a little girl, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience. An Iranian young lady escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over 20 years, as she transforms from baffled immigrant to overachieving Westerner to complex European transplant, little girl and father know each other only from their sessions: four crucial visits over 2 decades, each in some other international city. The a bit longer they are apart, the greater their lives diverge, but also the greater each comes to need the other's wisdom and, ultimately, recovery. Meanwhile, refugees of most nationalities are streaming into European countries under troubling conditions. Attempting to help, but also searching for a lost sense of home, our grown-up transplant locates herself quickly entranced by a global that reaches once everything she has missed and little or nothing that she has ever known. Will her immersion in the lives of the new refugees allow her the elegance to save her father? Refuge graphs the deeply moving life-time romantic relationship between a father and a little girl, seen through the prism of global immigration. Attractively written, packed with insight, elegance, and laughter, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and finally asks: Must home continually be a physical place, or can we think it is in another person?

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