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Reading by Nahid Rachlin, from memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin paperback edition just released),
February 15, Friday, 7:00 PM
Bluestockings Bookstore, Manhattan
172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
Event is free
Trains: F- 1 block south of the F train's 2nd Avenue stop
Info:(212) 777-6028
Nahid's website: website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com
Description of PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin)
In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache, and sisterhood, Persian Girls traces Rachlin's coming of age in Iran-and her domineering father-her tangled family life, and her relationship with her older sister, and unexpected soul mate, Pari. Both girls refused to accept traditional roles prescribed for them under cultural laws. They devoured forbidden books. They had secret romances. But then things quickly changed. Pari was forced by her parents to marry a wealthy suitor, a cruel man who kept her a prisoner in her own home. After narrowly avoiding an unhappy match herself with a man her parents chose for her, Nahid came to America, where she found literary success. Back in Iran, however, Pari's dreams fell to pieces.
Boston Globe:
"Persian Girls, reads like a novel -- suspenseful, vivid, heartbreaking. In Persian Girls, Rachlin chronicles her choices and those made by her sisters, her mother and her aunts, throwing the door to her family's home wide open. Readers who follow her through will be wiser, and moved."
NPR:
THE WORLD Selected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program as one of the best four books of 2006. "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Her portrait of the artist is filled with light."
BIO: Nahid Rachlin’s publications include the memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin), four novels and a collection of short stories. While a student she held a Doubleday-Columbia fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford). The grants and awards she have received include, the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She teaches at the New School University, this semester, starting on January 28.
