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A Memoir
Henry Holt
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0805079203
EAN: 9780805079203
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Drawing on her remarkable personal history, NPR producer
Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of
women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and
revolution. Her American grandmother’s love affair with an
Iranian physician took her from New York to Iran in 1931.
Ardalan herself moved from San Francsico to rural Iran in
1964 with her Iranian American parents who barely spoke
Farsi. After her parents’ divorce, Ardalan joined her father
in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he had gone to make a new
life; however improbably, after high school, Ardalan decided
to move back to an Islamic Iran. When she arrived, she
discovered a world she hardly recognized, and one which
demands a near-complete renunciation of the freedoms she
experienced in the West. In time, she and her young family
make the opposite migration and discover the difficulties,
however paradoxical, inherent in living a free life in America.
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