Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of thei...
A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting." -- Ruth Prawer JhabvalaWhen Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing -- an intellectual and...
An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest and exile in AmericaForced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in Ameri...
Zora, just separated from her American husband, with a six-year old daughter, Anar, has had a highly unsettled life so far. After her marriage falls apart, she moves with Anar to a row house in Cambridge, MA, that shares a backyard with several young...
The characters in the twenty stories in Nahid Rachlin's short story collection, A Way Home, mostly set in Iran and America, not only long for home but face the question: Where, really, is my home? Themes of separation--children from parents, spouses ...
A searing portrait of forced girlhood and generational grief, Given Away reveals the quiet strength of a woman suriving child marriage and motherhood in 1930s Iran.In 1930s Iran, ten-year-old Mehri is given away in marriage, the first step in a life ...