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Who Gets Believed?
- When the Truth Isn’t Enough
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
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'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to be trusted, if telling the truth is not enough?' - 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.
Critic reviews
"I was hugely moved by this book... Essential reading, an extraordinary labor of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice." (John Burnside, author of A Lie About My Father)
"An important, courageous, brilliant book; an interrogation of "disbelief culture" and the injustice that both fuels it and is fuelled by it, a form-shifting memoir of an already-remarkable life, and a moving, harrowing investigation of love, loss and care." (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland)
"Nayeri's mesmerizing, genre-bending book braids together narratives of asylum seekers, exonerated felons, and religious converts... Heartbreaking and hopeful. Reading this book will upend your preconceptions about who is worthy of belief, as writing it did for Nayeri herself. (Amanda Frost, author of You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers)
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- Nellie67
- 19-05-23
Must read
Expansive and nuanced. Straddles cultures. Will make you wonder and care more for others. Happy to recommend
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- Joanna
- 25-03-23
A must read for any gatekeepers. Research based.
The start is pretty hard hitting, but I'm glad I persevered. The author draws on examples from many different areas - from assessors of asylum seekers to Drs choosing healthcare options for their patients, to faith groups deciding if someone is a true believer, to family discussions over the validity of a relative's struggles with their mental health to board room executives getting their preferred action agreed.
She explores the conscious and unconscious biases that affect who gets believed and the potential catastrophic life changing consequences of a small comment taken out of context, or a dubious motivation. She draws on both her own experiences and thought processes and also on extensive research into other cases, such as miscarriages of justice and initially failed asylum claims.
Not an easy listen, and takes a bit of concentration, but I felt the author worked hard to develop a picture that held together with authenticity.
If you know anyone that can either give or decline something to another person, recommend this book to them -
Teachers, judges, doctors, asylum claim assessors, politians, police officers.... whoever.
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