The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why.

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? A

s 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.