My Name Is Iran
eBook - ePub

My Name Is Iran

A Memoir

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

My Name Is Iran

A Memoir

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. 1 - From America to Iran, 1964–66
  4. 2 - West Meets East, 1927
  5. 3 - The Bakhtiars and the Ardalans
  6. 4 - My Childhood
  7. 5 - Mysteries of Life Unfold
  8. 6 - Struggling with Reality, 1976–79
  9. 7 - The Islamic Revolution
  10. 8 - America and Back to Iran, 1980–83
  11. 9 - Tehran, 1983–87
  12. 10 - Married Life in Revolutionary Iran
  13. 11 - Becoming a Mother
  14. 12 - Back to the West
  15. 13 - Beginning a New Life
  16. 14 - Crisis of Identity
  17. 15 - Discovering a Great-Grandfather
  18. 16 - Sorrow and Triumph
  19. 17 - Finding Myself Through Love
  20. 18 - My Name Is Iran
  21. Praise for My Name Is Iran
  22. Author’s Note, April 17, 2006
  23. • notes •
  24. • bibliography •
  25. • acknowledgments •
  26. • about the author •
  27. Copyright Page