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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(1874 - 1965)
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ZIN Product Number: 10292137
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807072117
Release Date: Jan 10, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"Beguiling. . . . An American manifesto, if ever there was one."
-Wendy Law-Yone, The Washington Post Book World
This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran until her family immigrated to North Carolina. Asayesh writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty.
"Asayesh's superb memoir . . . is funny, human, real, and illuminates a dignified, honest, and endearing family."
-James McBride, author of The Color of Water
"This beautifully written narrative provides a rare, humanizing glimpse into the politics, culture, and geography of a place about which most Americans know shamefully little. . . . A wonderful and timely tale."
-Rachel Mattson, Library Journal
"Asayesh reminds us of every adopted person's dream: to reclaim the past and take it into the future. . . . A graceful and moving account of how a temporary visa can become a permanent life."
-Richard Wallace, San Francisco Chronicle
"What makes this work particularly effective is the manner in which Asayesh weaves her keen reporter's eye for objective detail with her almost poetic ability to describe and analyze her own emotional connection to the story."
-Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio: Gelareh Asayesh has worked at The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and the Baltimore Sun, and has also written for The Washington Post and other national publications. She lives with her family in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Brave and beautiful book
-- A reviewer, March 6, 2000
Also Recommended: Lost in Translation
Thank You Saffron Sky
-- Betsy, a teacher from Florida., May 19, 2000
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