Book description
From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.
Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up…
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Early on in this collection is an essay that encapsulated for me the often unseen internal struggle of attempting to assimilate into the United States. A young Porochista makes an excursion to the Los Angeles Zoo with her parents, and to her great horror she is taken on a camel ride that she fears will publicly expose her for who she is: an Iranian who has been masquerading as an American. Constructing the mask is only one part of the challenge, but keeping it on might be even harder, and this collection can be read as a primer on the…
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