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Djavadi, Négar

Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJA

Nayeri, Daniel

3 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAY

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NAY

Abdoh, Salar

Summary: "A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

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