Know Your Place
Golriz Gharaman
HarperCollins
pub. 2020

23 March, 2021

Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman is the first book of its kind I have ever read. It’s Golriz’s life story and how being a refugee and someone of colour has affected the way she is perceived. She was born in Iran, but the political climate of war, oppression and dictatorship was not the right place for a woman to grow up and have a free future. So when she was nine years old her parents escaped to New Zealand to seek refuge in a more democratic country.

Moving countries is a massive change, especially as a child.  Read more