| Home Is a Stranger Contributor(s): Foroutan, Parnaz (Author) |
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ISBN: 1948705605 ISBN-13: 9781948705608 Publisher: Amberjack Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.85 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |