
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A century of family tales from two beloved but divided homelands, Iran and America 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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- 1 - From America to Iran, 1964–66
- 2 - West Meets East, 1927
- 3 - The Bakhtiars and the Ardalans
- 4 - My Childhood
- 5 - Mysteries of Life Unfold
- 6 - Struggling with Reality, 1976–79
- 7 - The Islamic Revolution
- 8 - America and Back to Iran, 1980–83
- 9 - Tehran, 1983–87
- 10 - Married Life in Revolutionary Iran
- 11 - Becoming a Mother
- 12 - Back to the West
- 13 - Beginning a New Life
- 14 - Crisis of Identity
- 15 - Discovering a Great-Grandfather
- 16 - Sorrow and Triumph
- 17 - Finding Myself Through Love
- 18 - My Name Is Iran
- Praise for My Name Is Iran
- Author’s Note, April 17, 2006
- • notes •
- • bibliography •
- • acknowledgments •
- • about the author •
- Copyright Page