Home Is a Stranger (Hardcover)

Parnaz Foroutan

ISBN 10: 1948705605 / ISBN 13: 9781948705608

Editore: Amberjack Publishing, 2020

Hardcover. "A thought-provoking memoir about the challenges of personal and national relations." --Foreword Reviews New travel nonfiction from a break-out novelist and recipient of a PEN Emerging Voice fellowship that speaks to the immigrant and female experiences of America and Iran Unmoored by the death of her father and disenchanted by the American Dream, Parnaz Foroutan leaves Los Angeles for Iran, nineteen years after her family fled the religious police state brought in by the Islamic Theocracy. From the moment Parnaz steps off the plane in Tehran, she contends with a world she only partially understands. Struggling with her own identity in a culture that feels both foreign and familiar, she tries to find a place for herself between the American girl she is and the woman she hopes to become. Written with the same literary grace and passion as her fiction, Home Is a Stranger is a memoir about the meaning of desire, the transcendence of boundaries, and the journey to find home. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781948705608

Riassunto:

“A thought-provoking memoir about the challenges of personal and national relations.” —Foreword Reviews 

New travel nonfiction from a break-out novelist and recipient of a PEN Emerging Voice fellowship that speaks to the immigrant and female experiences of America and Iran 

Unmoored by the death of her father and disenchanted by the American Dream, Parnaz Foroutan leaves Los Angeles for Iran, nineteen years after her family fled the religious police state brought in by the Islamic Theocracy.  

From the moment Parnaz steps off the plane in Tehran, she contends with a world she only partially understands. Struggling with her own identity in a culture that feels both foreign and familiar, she tries to find a place for herself between the American girl she is and the woman she hopes to become.  

Written with the same literary grace and passion as her fiction, Home Is a Stranger is a memoir about the meaning of desire, the transcendence of boundaries, and the journey to find home. 

Informazioni sull'autore:

Parnaz Foroutan is the author of The Girl from the Garden (Ecco 2015). She lives in Los Angeles.

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Titolo: Home Is a Stranger (Hardcover)
Casa editrice: Amberjack Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: new