num_pages: 304
description: Dina Nayeris powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.Viet Thanh NguyenFrom the author of The Ungrateful Refugeefinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus PrizeWho Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies truths and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews emergency rooms consulting jobs and family lifeWhy are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book which grows into a reckoning with our cultures views on believability. From persuading a doctor that shed prefer a C-section to learning to bullshit gracefully at McKinsey to struggling in her personal life to believe her troubled brother-in-law Nayeri explores an aspect of our society that is rarely held up to the light. For readers of David Grann Malcolm Gladwell and Atul Gawande Who Gets Believed? is a book as deeply personal as it is profound in its reflections on morals language human psychology and the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.
language: English
title: Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough
publisher: Catapult